Famous quotes containing the word knew:
“We knew their line invincible
because there fell
on them no shiverings
of the white enchantress,
radiant Aphrodites spell.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“We who knew him well know how great he would have been if he had never written a line.”
—Edith Wharton (18621937)
“I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)