KNEW in Classic Quotes

1  She knew I loved crackling bread.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

2  When he said that, I knew he was afraid.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

3  When he was like that, I knew better than to bother him.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

4  There was more to it than he knew, but I decided not to tell him.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

5  Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

6  Miss Caroline said, "Sit back down, please, Burris," and the moment she said it I knew she had made a serious mistake.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

7  So Jem received most of his information from Miss Stephanie Crawford, a neighborhood scold, who said she knew the whole thing.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

8  We could not expect her to learn all Maycomb's ways in one day, and we could not hold her responsible when she knew no better.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

9  Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

10  Nobody knew what form of intimidation Mr. Radley employed to keep Boo out of sight, but Jem figured that Mr. Radley kept him chained to the bed most of the time.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

11  I knew I had annoyed Miss Caroline, so I let well enough alone and stared out the window until recess when Jem cut me from the covey of first-graders in the schoolyard.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

12  She was always ordering me out of the kitchen, asking me why I couldn't behave as well as Jem when she knew he was older, and calling me home when I wasn't ready to come.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

13  He liked Maycomb, he was Maycomb County born and bred; he knew his people, they knew him, and because of Simon Finch's industry, Atticus was related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

14  Mindful of John Wesley's strictures on the use of many words in buying and selling, Simon made a pile practicing medicine, but in this pursuit he was unhappy lest he be tempted into doing what he knew was not for the glory of God, as the putting on of gold and costly apparel.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

15  As for me, I knew nothing except what I gathered from Time magazine and reading everything I could lay hands on at home, but as I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

16  I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

17  The town decided something had to be done; Mr. Conner said he knew who each and every one of them was, and he was bound and determined they wouldn't get away with it, so the boys came before the probate judge on charges of disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, assault and battery, and using abusive and profane language in the presence and hearing of a female.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1