Knees famous quotes

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
-- Adam Savage

#Saint #Knees #Praying

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Aeschylus

#Feet #Knees #Progressive

I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'
-- Aimee Mullins

#Amputees #Asking #Knees

Let's keep our chins up and our knees down - we're on the victory side.
-- Alan Redpath

#Christian #Victory #Knees

The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.
-- Alexander Vandegrift

#Military #Knees #Tradition

You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.
-- Amy Welborn

#Prayer #Knees #Praying

Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.
-- Andre Agassi

#Hate #Feet #Knees

Askin what happened to the feelin that her and me had, I pray so much about it, need some knee pads.
-- Andre Benjamin

#Rap #Needs #Knees

Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.
-- Andy Murray

#Knees #Normal #Easier

I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.
-- Andy Williams

#Fighting #Want #Knees

She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time
-- Ann Brashares

#Smile #Knees #Lava

No one can do in the octagon what I can do. That 'Showtime Knee' - I never even practiced that once.
-- Anthony Pettis

#Knees #Showtime

I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.
-- Armistead Maupin

#Knees

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
-- Arthur Rimbaud

#Beauty #Knees #Bitterness

I've been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.
-- Barry Manilow

#Feelings #Trying #Knees

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
-- Bede Griffiths

#Easter #Knees #Made

The spirit is what guides my life, and I'm humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it's something to be lived.
-- Ben Harper

#God #Knees #Spirit

I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
-- Ben Hogan

#Golf #Monsters #Knees

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch

#Hair #Would Be #Knees

Courage is fear on its knees.
-- Beverly Lewis

#Knees

The more you walk with God, the harder it is to scrape your knee
-- Big K.R.I.T.

#Knees #Walking With God #Walks

To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.
-- Billy Graham

#Prayer #Feet #Knees

When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.
-- Bob Dylan

#Mustache #Jelly #Knees

Lead me to the cross Where Your love poured out Bring me to my knees Lord I lay me down Rid me of myself I belong to You Lead me, lead me to the cross.
-- Brooke Fraser

#Easter #Knees #Lord

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Silly #Knees #Knocking

you can have one of mine," he says. "i'll yank one out right now." no, that won't count. It has to be the lash that naturally falls out. " He gets on his knees and starts looking for my lash.
-- Caprice Crane

#Fall #Knees #Lashes

I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.
-- Carol Burnett

#Fall #Waiting #Knees

I bend my knee to no man. Unless I choose to.
-- Caterina Sforza

#Men #Knees

To pass through the door that leads to God's kingdom, we must go down on our knees.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Doors #Kingdoms #Knees

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
-- Cathy Freeman

#Cancer #Knees #Firsts

I prefer to die standing than to live on my knees,
-- Charb

#Knees #Standing

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.
-- Charles Bent

#Prayer #Might #Knees

We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.
-- Charles Stanley

#Distance #Knees #Remember

Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest,
-- Charlie Daniels

#Children #Ties #Knees

Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.
-- Che Guevara

#Knees #Standing

I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.
-- Che Guevara

#Live Life #Knees #Standing

I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#Hands #Opera #Knees

I’d prefer to see both knees on the ground. I mean, if you’re going to grovel, be the best groveler you can, right?
-- Chloe Neill

#Mean #Knees #Being The Best

Our sacred beliefs have been made pencils / names of cities / gas stations / My knee is wounded so badly that I limp constantly / Anger is my crutch / I hold myself upright with it / My knee is wounded / see / How I Am Still Walking.
-- Chrystos

#Cities #Names #Knees

I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.
-- Cormac McCarthy

#Thinking #Race #Knees

A man is powerful on his knees.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Powerful #Men #Knees

Even if the skies were shorter than my knees, I would not kneel.
-- Cyrus the Great

#Sky #Knees

The side's all right, but my bloody knees are killing me!
-- Dai Dower

#Boxing #Knees #Sides

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.
-- Daniel H. Wilson

#Race #Together #Knees

There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone wanted to torture me until I told them a critical piece of information, all they would have to do is get my socks wet. It feels terrible.
-- Daniel Handler

#Water #Pieces #Knees

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control...My hotel check-in name used to be Mr BL Zebub.
-- Dave Gahan

#Names #Knees #Praying

What if all it took to bring us to our knees and to ignite our affections was the Word opened and the presence of God? What if that was enough for us? What if it didn't take a great band to evoke that kind of response from us in worship? What if His presence - His Word opened - what if it was enough?
-- David Platt

#What If #Band #Knees

Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.
-- Dawn French

#Memories #Thinking #Knees

I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn't have acted that, I couldn't have written that.
-- Denzel Washington

#Knees #Spirit

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.
-- Diane Ackerman

#Knees #Wonder #Ricochet

Sandro's holding is face. You can tell from that it's a knee injury.
-- Dion Dublin

#Football #Knee Injuries #Knees

Everyone keeps me telling me how great a knee replacement is. Whitey Ford said it was great and so did Ralph Branca. If I had one of those, I don't know that I would retire. But if I left for a month or more, who's going to want me back?
-- Don Zimmer

#Yankees #Want #Knees

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Heart #Knees

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
-- Duke Ellington

#Knees

I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.
-- Edmund Wilson

#Hands #Pay #Knees

The thing about breaking up when you get older, you just don't have the steam anymore. "Oh, that's it. I can't start shaving my legs above the knee again."
-- Elayne Boosler

#Heartache #Legs #Knees

I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.
-- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

#Frustration #Play #Knees

Running is bad for your knees, and I like to do things I actually enjoy, like going for a swim.
-- Emma Stone

#Running #Swim #Knees

Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.
-- Eric Dickerson

#Running #Legs #Knees

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?
-- Ethel Barrymore

#Knees #Praying #Wells

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
-- Euripides

#Freedom #Feet #Knees

You know, back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly.
-- Foster Friess

#Aspirin #Knees #Election

If you have beautiful knees, show your knees. I'm not a puritan. I love skin.
-- Francisco Costa

#Beautiful #Skins #Knees

If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion
-- Frank Ocean

#Knees

He's got a knock on his shin there, just above the knee.
-- Frank Stapleton

#Football #Knees

If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees.
-- Fred Beck

#Feet #Knees

When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.
-- Fred Durst

#Taken #Looks #Knees

Stryker was a company that allowed me, when I had my knee replaced and I got the Stryker GetAroundKnee put in, to get my career back and get my life back.
-- Fred Funk

#Careers #Knees #Company

I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Horse #Sea #Knees

Alexia,” she hissed to her friend, “there are knees positively everywhere. What do I do?
-- Gail Carriger

#Knees #Positively

Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare.
-- Glenn Greenwald

#Government #Doe #Knees

Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley

#Feet #Knees #Praying

You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley

#Blessing #Feet #Knees

Never assume that you can make it alone. You need the help of the Lord. Never hesitate to get on your knees in some private place and speak with Him.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley

#Inspiration #Needs #Knees

If I get run into again, I'm taking someone with me. I lost one knee. I'll take a head if it happens again.
-- Grant Fuhr

#Running #Hockey #Knees

Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.
-- Hanif Kureishi

#Children #Knees #Way

We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees
-- Harry Belafonte

#America #Knees #Globalization

I am not too keen on my nose, I don't like my knees, I hate my ankles, I am unsure about my behind, I don't like my legs at all. I am not too sure about my chin, my forehead is a bit dodgy. But, overall, I can live with it.
-- Helen Mirren

#Hate #Legs #Knees

Teach me. Lord, my true condition; Bring me childlike to Thy knee; Stripped of every low ambition, Willing to be led by Thee.
-- Henry Francis Lyte

#Ambition #Humility #Knees

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.
-- Hudson Taylor

#Brother #Knees #Christianity

Picture you upon my knee, just tea for two and two for tea.
-- Irving Caesar

#Two #Tea #Knees

I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.
-- Irving Kirsch

#Pain #Research #Knees

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
-- J. C. Ryle

#Prayer #Knees #Wells

This is what it's like to get old: You still feel 19, except your knees hurt
-- J. D. Daniels

#Hurt #Knees #Feels

Then she fell on her knees, saying: 'I beg thee!' 'Nay, lady,' he said, and taking her by the hand he raised her. The he kissed her hand, and sprang into the saddle, and rode away, and did not look back; and only those who knew him well and were near to him saw the pain that he bore.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Pain #Hands #Knees

Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.
-- James O. Fraser

#Missionary #Done #Knees

That best academy, a mother's knee.
-- James Russell Lowell

#Mom #Mother #Knees

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.
-- James Taylor

#Revenge #Enemy #Knees

I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.
-- Jay Kay

#Littles #Knees #Stage

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
-- Jeanette Winterson

#Knees #Different #Goes On

Vlad made a sound too harsh to be a growl. "You won't be satisfied until you've brought me to my knees, is that it?" "Why not?" It shot out of me with all the recklessness of my still-broken heart. "You brought me to mine.
-- Jeaniene Frost

#Heart #Broken #Knees

I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.
-- Jelly Roll Morton

#Ducks #Knees #Jazz

Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from seventh grade. Then it whacks you on the back of the head, takes you straight to your knees before you realize what hit you. Other times you can see it coming, just a dot on the horizon, but you're like a canary in a cage. All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.
-- Jennifer Rardin

#Girlfriend #Fear #Knees

God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between!
-- Jim Elliot

#Distance #Thrones #Knees

That saint who advances on his knees never retreats...
-- Jim Elliot

#Saint #Knees #Retreat

My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.
-- Joe Montana

#Sleep #Knees #Bugs

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.
-- Joel Salatin

#Animal #Knees #Joints

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
-- John Bunyan

#Prayer #Heart #Knees

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.
-- John Hawkes

#Actors #Knees #Tough

There's no room for anything else. You forget that you're tired or cold or hungry. You forget that banged-up knee and your aching tooth. You forget the past, and you forget that there's such a thing as a future.
-- John Marsden

#Tired #Past #Knees