Knock

Famous quotes containing the word knock:

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

“Could that old god rise up again
We’d drink a can or two,
And out and lay our leadership
On country and on town,
Throw likely couples into bed
And knock the others down.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I would not knock old fellows in the dust
But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back
His weapons were the old heart in his bust
And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)