Top 100 Quotes About I Never Knew
#1. I never knew her more than slightly and she was a woman who kept herself to herself.
W. Somerset Maugham
#2. Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'
Oscar Wilde
#3. As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.
Monica Seles
#4. The saddest words I can ever imagine would be to hear the Lord say, "I never knew you. Away from Me" [Matthew 7:23 NIV].
Billy Graham
#5. Simon Glass was easy to hate. I never knew exactly why, there was just too much to pick from. I guess, really, we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him.
Gail Giles
#6. I never knew how high a price one pays for being taken care of ...
Susan Jeffers
#7. I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect ... For after all, they could be my people.
James A. Michener
#8. I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me.
Didi Conn
#9. Say goodbye to a world where you cannot breathe/ To hiding behind unfamiliar skin/ To singing songs never knowing what they mean/ Now this is the way it was meant to be/ Be still and listen to the rising and falling/ Knowledge is power and I never knew me till now.
Michelle Malone
#10. I guess after all those years he had exhausted me. I never knew I was signing up for a battle, but I finally knew that he had won.
Deb Caletti
#11. I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
Mal Peet
#12. But what are you? Buddhist? Japanese? Communist? What?' 'I'm nothing.' 'Can you be nothing?' I never knew how to answer that question when I was asked it as a child, because the wording troubled me. Can you be nothing? I will be nothing.
Jaume Cabre
#13. The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.
Mona Simpson
#14. I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#15. Until you came along, I never knew how much I'd been missing. I never knew that a touch could be so meaningful or an expression so eloquent; I never knew that a kiss could literally take my breath awa
Nicholas Sparks
#16. "My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."
Charles Dickens
#17. This baby comes out of you and there's no handbook. They hand you this child and say, 'Don't kill it. Feed it, clothe it and shelter it.' I never knew what that kind of love was. I remember looking at my daughter for the first time and wondering if that's the way my father looked at me.
Alicia Coppola
#18. I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.
G. M. Trevelyan
#19. Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
Anne Stevenson
#20. But no, it's not the Ori I knew. It's an Ori I never knew. The Ori I made her into.
Nova Ren Suma
#21. We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.
John Sherman
#22. You are the light in a dark place. You are the water to my drought. You are everything I never knew existed and everything I wanted all at the same time.
Shelly Crane
#23. I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.
Kurt Vonnegut
#24. I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
#25. I've never seen the stars before.
And I never knew they were so beautiful.
Beth Revis
#26. I never knew you played the banjo!" cried Harris and I, in one breath.
"Not exactly," replied George: "but it's very easy, they tell me; and I've got the instruction book!"
From Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
#27. I never knew anyone actually buy cakes when they were hot ...
Ruth Rendell
#28. I had tried to express myself, but couldn't do that because I was afraid that it will hurt someone. I never knew that not expressing myself hurt myself.
Nutan Bajracharya
#29. I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.
Agyness Deyn
#30. I had to ask the burning question as we walked to the door. "How's it feel to throw a man off a building twenty stories up?"
"Good. Kind of liberating actually. Educational too. I never knew a man could scream so loud. Or so long.
KevaD
#31. I never knew anyone who came close to Marilyn in natural ability to use both photographer and still camera. She was
special in this, and for me there has been no one like her before or after. She has remained the measuring rod by which I have - unconsciously - judged
other subjects.
Eve Arnold
#32. Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.
Casey Stengel
#33. I never knew that I would see the day that I would meet the devil himself.
Busta Rhymes
#34. I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions of phantasmatical seeming philosophy. {William Petty]
Carl Zimmer
#35. I was happy with her and I suspect I never knew her.Would I have been truly happy if I had actually known her?
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
#36. One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.
Bryan White
#37. I never knew anybody ... who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#38. I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#39. Caleb was like a hurricane that swept through my life, stirring up things inside of me that I never knew existed. He is a longing I will never cure.
Tarryn Fisher
#40. I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?
Neil Young
#41. This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.
Nikola Tesla
#42. This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things.
I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye.
Maggie Stiefvater
#43. I never knew book were important than anything even humans until i discovered that books are straight forward why humans are unstable.
Oladeji Jeremy
#44. Give me everything you have," I told [Preston].
"Really, Cammie. I never knew you thought of me that way.
Ally Carter
#45. I have a really nice step ladder, sadly, I never knew my real ladder.
Harry Hill
#46. I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.
Simon Cowell
#47. God had a plan for everything. I never knew I'd come to Iowa, but now I love Iowa. Everything is so great about it - the people, the environment, education. I'm so proud to say I'm an Iowan. I'm living the dream.
Liang Chow
#48. I never knew my grandfather. He died the year before I was born. But as a child, he did, of course, those wonderful illustrations, 'Treasure Island,' and whatnot.
Jamie Wyeth
#49. I never knew how protective I was until I had my own child. I'm already thinking about intruders coming into the house and what our escape route would be.
Jessica Simpson
#50. Poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you
Walt Whitman
#51. After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.
Lynn Johnston
#53. I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.
Frida Kahlo
#54. I can't believe you cheated! (Phobos) I can't believe you didn't know it. Man, what kind of god are you? I never knew stupidity had a divine representative. Guess I was wrong, huh? (Deimos)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#55. I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#56. I know nothing about her. Just some books, and some stories she tried to tell me, and things I didn't understand, and I remember big red soft hands and that smell. I never knew who she really was. I mean, she must have been nine too, once.
Terry Pratchett
#57. I like finding things no one else is looking for. Things that got lost or forgotten, shoved in a corner. Stuff I never knew existed. I don't even need to buy it. I just like to find it and know that it's there. That's the part I like.
Katja Millay
#58. The crazy thing is, I never knew that a wiener could actually make me nauseous.
Jessica Simpson
#59. I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.
Robert Peel
#60. The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.
David Miliband
#61. Somebody's girlfriend," she said. "Somebody's sister, somebody's daughter. All these things I never knew I was before, and I still don't really know what I am.
Cassandra Clare
#62. I've always known, all my life, that I was going to be something special. I never knew what it was, but I always had that feeling. I think my mother installed it when I was a little guy.
Tommy Chong
#63. My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
Eminem
#64. I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for one until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.
Neil Gaiman
#65. I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!
Anne Rice
#66. Is Joe your father, Zach?'
I don't know where the question came from, but it was out, and I couldn't take it back even if I'd wanted to.
'No.' Zach shook his head. 'I never knew my dad. I don't know anything about him.
Ally Carter
#67. I never knew how empty the world could be, how colorless, until I tried to live in it without you
Diana Palmer
#68. I never knew you had such a fine eye for fabrics," I said as we continued up the street. "You should have been a tailor instead of a thief."
"I have a fine eye for all things, amira, which is why I'm a thief and not a tailor.
Heidi Heilig
#69. I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.
Phil Niekro
#71. I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.
Ulysses S. Grant
#72. I never knew whether I was drawn to eccentric people or if they were drawn to me.
Dean Koontz
#73. My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it.
"Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?"
"Lydia," he said. "I apologize.
Jaclyn Moriarty
#74. Why come back to this empty house, and this Manila with a strange face; the one I never knew? All those lonely islands. They will keep afloat without me.
V.J. Campilan
#75. I never knew how easy it is to escape if you don't mind leaving nearly everything behind.
Beth Revis
#76. When I first moved to New York, I moved all over because I never knew where I would be or if I was going to Europe, so I would sublet apartments. It was miserable because I was constantly moving.
Ashley Hinshaw
#77. I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice.
Hilary Duff
#78. I never knew about a lot of the outside things
Angelo Dundee
#79. I was cold and you were fire, and I never knew how the pyre could be burning on the edge of an ice field.
Meat Loaf
#80. I was 26 years old when I found out that I had a sister who I never knew existed.
Dominique Moceanu
#81. I started playing guitar, like, when I was 17 or so, but where I'm from, you just don't hear about people moving to Nashville and making it. It was such a foreign thing to me. I never knew music was an option for me.
Kip Moore
#82. I never knew I lacked so much confidence until I met you
Karuho Shiina
#83. I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.
Marguerite De Navarre
#84. I always thought that explained it: the romance is a reaction from the algebra. I never knew a person connected with mathematics or astronomy or statistics, or any of those exact things, who didn't have a crazy streak in 'em SOMEwhere.
Booth Tarkington
#85. I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
Natalie Wood
#86. I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
Graham Greene
#87. I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.
Robert Frost
#88. Darlin', I've heard all about fifty shades of grey but I never knew there were fifty shades of denim!
Joanne McClean
#89. Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?
Daniel Keyes
#90. As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God's rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he often used the word beautiful.
Norman Maclean
#91. I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really.
Spike Jonze
#92. I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!
Thomas A. Edison
#93. Don't part from me in any ill humor. I never knew you to be out of patience with me before.
Kate Chopin
#94. I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.
Scott Adams
#95. When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
Facundo Pieres
#96. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was.
Ernest Hemingway,
#97. I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.
Alan Ball
#98. I always knew I was a dust. But I never knew I was also a universe.
Akiane Kramarik
#99. I never knew words could be so sharp, until the wrong ones cut me
Foz Meadows
#100. I never knew what top golf was like until I turned professional. Then it was too late.
Steve Melnyk
