Famous quotes containing the word tells:
“When after talk with other men
A man comes back to a woman again
He tells her as much of blood and dirt
As he thinks will do her not too much hurt.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“Is there any thing beyond?who knows? He that cant tell. Who tells there is? He who dont know. And when shall he know? Perhaps, when he dont expect it, and generally when he dont wish it. In this last respect, however, all are not alike; it depends a good deal upon education, something upon nerves and habitsbut most upon digestion.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“My son and daughter tell me where they are in very different ways. I know where my son is because I hear him. I know where my daughter is because she tells me.”
—Anonymous Father. Raising a Daughter by Jeanne Elium and Don Elium, ch. 1 (1994)