Knock

Famous quotes containing the word knock:

    There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
    Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)

    However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
    Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

    ‘Who knocks?’ ‘I, who was beautiful,
    Beyond all dreams to restore,
    I from the roots of the dark thorn am hither,
    And knock on the door.’
    Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)