100+ Knees Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Interview: Irving Kirsch showed power of placebo effect with antidepressant use". Interview with Brian Morton, Kevin Griffin, www.vancouversun.com. September 24, 2013.

topic: Pain, Research, Knees, Arthritis, Asthma

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

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Prayer, Knees, Wells, Day Well Spent, Time Well Spent

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

- J. D. Daniels

source: "Regrets at Fordham". Interview with Keith Gessen, nplusonemag.com. December 17, 2011.

topic: 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

topic: Pain, Hands, Knees, Return Of The King, Eowyn

Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.

- James O. Fraser

source: "Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser" by Geraldine Taylor, Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., (p. 52), 1998.

topic: Missionary, Done, Knees, Missionary Work

That best academy, a mother's knee.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Mom, Mother, Knees, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

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

- James Taylor

topic: 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

topic: 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

topic: 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

topic: 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

topic: 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

topic: Girlfriend, Fear, Knees, Canaries, Best Girlfriend

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

- Jim Elliot

topic: Distance, Thrones, Knees

That saint who advances on his knees never retreats...

- Jim Elliot

topic: 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

topic: 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

topic: 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

topic: Prayer, Heart, Knees

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

- John Hawkes

topic: Actors, Knees, Tough, Knee Jerk Reactions

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

topic: Tired, Past, Knees

The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.

- Jon Bon Jovi

topic: Stones, Knees, Way

Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?

- Jose Clemente Orozco

source: José Clemente Orozco (2014). “José Clemente Orozco: An Autobiography”, p.24, University of Texas Press

topic: Knees

The soul started at the knee-cap and ended at the navel.

- Jose Lezama Lima

topic: Soul, Knees, Caps, Navel

I ought to break your neck!" Clayton interrupted. Too late, Whitney realized that she shouldn't have been standing all this time on her "injured" knee. "Allow me to congratulate you on a fine day's work, Madam," he said sternly. "In less than twelve hours, you've brought Whitticomb to your side and Cuthbert to your feet.

- Judith McNaught

topic: Feet, Your Side, Knees, Whitney, Fine Day

The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees.

- Julian Baggini

topic: Humble, Feet, Knees

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

- Junot Diaz

topic: Artist, Community, Knees, Knee Jerk Reactions

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.

- Katarina Witt

source: Katarina Witt (2007). “Only with Passion: Figure Skating's Most Winning Champion on Competition and Life”, Public Affairs

topic: Feet, Competition, Knees

As you know we are facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market based strategy, we are bringing Western Civilization to its knees by selling private insurance plans on a website where people pick and choose.

- Kathleen Sebelius

topic: Civilization, People, Knees, Private Insurance

She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: Knees

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

- Kyra Sedgwick

topic: Christmas, Toes, Knees, Stockings

Wraith held up his hands. "Chill, Gramps. I don't want to sit on your knee or anything.

- Larissa Ione

topic: Hands, Want, Knees, Wraith

Happy is the child who happens in upon his parents from time to time to see him on his knees, or going aside regularly, to keep times with the Lord.

- Larry Christenson

topic: Children, Parent, Knees

Lover please do not fall to your knees it's not like I believe in everlasting love

- Laura Marling

source: Song: Ghosts, Album: Alas I Cannot Swim, 2008

topic: Fall, Believe, Knees, Everlasting Love

I need somebody with staying power who will make me go weak in the knees.

- LeAnn Rimes

topic: Needs, Knees, Weak, Staying Power, Weak In The Knees

I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.

- Lech Walesa

topic: Knees, Prudence

Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse

- Lee Majors

topic: Knees, Stuff, Serious

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

- Lee Majors

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Football, College, Knees, College Football

I have two false hips, a wired-up right knee, two crushed discs and scoliosis. If I don't dance, I seize up.

- Liza Minnelli

topic: Two, Scoliosis, Knees

If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.

- Mamie Till

topic: Past, White, Knees

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

- Margaret Halsey

topic: Fear, Spoons, Knees

Let every knee bend before Thee, O greatness of my God, so supremely humbled in the Sacred Host. May every heart love Thee, every spirit adore Thee and every will be subject to Thee!

- Margaret Mary Alacoque

topic: Heart, Greatness, Knees

I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.

- Maria Callas

source: "Callas : The Art and the Life". Book by John Ardoin, 1974.

topic: Enemy, Knees

I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.

- Marian McPartland

source: "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

topic: Knees, Needs, Walks

Now you'll get to see how I can really run a building, darlin. Not even a cracked knee to hold me back, yeah? What a nice birthday present.

- Marie Lu

topic: Running, Nice, Knees

Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.

- Marilyn Manson

topic: Cake, White, Knees, White Trash, Libido

The full squat is a perfectly natural position for the leg to occupy. That's why there is a joint in the middle of it, and why humans have been occupying this position, both unloaded and loaded, for millions of years. Much longer, in fact, than quasi-intellect ual morons have been telling us that it's 'bad' for the knees.

- Mark Rippetoe

topic: Years, Legs, Knees, Squat, Perfectly Natural

I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees.

- Martin Luther

topic: Knees, Today, Needs

Then take me on your knee, mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies danced last night, And the harpers they were nine.

- Mary Howitt

topic: Mother, Night, Knees, Harper, Last Night

A woman is as young as her knees.

- Mary Quant

topic: Knees, Young

I guess we're all one phone call from our knees

- Mat Kearney

source: Song: Closer to Love, Album: City of Black and White, 2009

topic: Phones, Phone Calls, Knees

I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the knee.

- Mayim Bialik

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Past, Decision, Knees

My knee feels good right now. I am definitely able to move about whichever way.

- Michael Chang

topic: Moving, Feel Good, Knees

Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

- Michael Douglas

topic: Cancer, Feet, Knees, Inspirational Cancer, Cancer Patients

The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God to walk in the room. And when I write something that I know is right, I get on my knees and say 'thank you.'

- Michael Jackson

topic: Writing, Keys, Knees

Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.

- Michael Reagan

source: Michael Reagan, Joe Hyams (1988). “On the outside looking in”, Zebra Books

topic: Dad, Littles, Knees, Schmucks

I'm probably going to have to work hard on my right knee for the rest of my career

- Michael Vaughan

source: "Vaughan denies being a distraction for the Ashes". www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2006.

topic: Hard Work, Careers, Knees

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

- Mike Piazza

topic: School, Knees, Balls, Catchers

Basically, I wear sandals, like Jesus. When it gets cold in Chicago, the snow way up to my knees, I still wear my sandals. But that's me.

- Mr. T

topic: Jesus, Snow, Knees, Sandals

Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved

- N. T. Wright

source: N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

topic: Feet, Knees, Beloved

The ever-growing size of software applications is what makes Moore's Law possible: 'If we hadn't brought your computer to its knees, why would you go out and buy a new one?'

- Nathan Myhrvold

topic: Law, Knees, Size, Moore's Law

Our desire to share the gospel takes all of us to our knees, and it should, because we need the Lord's help.

- Neil L. Andersen

topic: Desire, Knees, Needs

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

- Nick Cave

topic: Dirty, Garden, Knees, Armchairs

I don't like my thighs, the back of my legs or my chubby knees. I wear clothes that show off my legs in pictures and videos but not often when I'm appearing live.

- Nicole Scherzinger

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Clothes, Legs, Knees, Thighs

The thought sometimes -- the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of ... so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came -- if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just -- it'll take no more than about 10Â½ hours to fly back.

- Nikita Khrushchev

topic: United States, Might, Knees

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Prayer, Thinking, Knees

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

- Pam Brown

topic: Cat, Knees, Lasts, Last Minute

Planes are my foxhole. I'm always on my knees in them.

- Patricia Hampl

topic: Flying, Knees, Foxholes

Will you stand up an fight? he wondered bitterly. Or do you intend to remain on your knees for ever?

- Paul Stewart

topic: Fighting, Knees

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

- Pauline Kael

topic: Television, Knees, This Generation

I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.

- Peg Bracken

topic: Attitude, Believe, Knees

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Horse, Government, Knees

Whyle I was abowte to chaunge myn olde lyff-- What sorowe I suffred, dyseese, angre and stryff, Cracchynge myn here, my chekys all totare, Wrythynge my fyngres for angwysshe and care, Watrynge the erthe with my byttre salte teres That the crye of my syghes ascended to Goddys eres, My knees with myn handys grasped togedyre soore, And yitt I stode the same man I was afore Tyl a depe profounde remembraunce att the laste Hadd all my wrecchednesse afore myn eyn caste

- Petrarch

topic: Men, Suffering, Knees

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

topic: Courage, Knees

Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone.

- Pope Pius XII

topic: Two, Knees, Arms, Width

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

- Pythagoras

topic: Children, Men, Knees

We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.

- R. S. Thomas

source: R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.57, Hachette UK

topic: Hands, World, Knees, Subterfuge

I play Dwight. That is just much me being of service and worshiping as if I'm on my knees in some temple somewhere or bowing my head in prayer to God in some way. It's really all just the same thing.

- Rainn Wilson

topic: Prayer, Play, Knees, Dwight

Broken locks and bruised knees and borrowed lipgloss and rain on the streets

- Rebecca Godfrey

topic: Rain, Broken, Knees

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.

- Rene Redzepi

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Home, Greatness, Knees, Going Home

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

- Reverend Malcolm Boyd

topic: Knees

Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it. A photographer down on his or her knees picturing a dog has found pleasure enough to make many things possible.

- Robert Adams

topic: Dog, Art, Knees

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

- Robert Breault

topic: Prayer, Mountain, Knees

Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it.

- Robert Collier

topic: Knees, Stores, Shelves

A man is what he is on his knees before God, and nothing more.

- Robert M

topic: Men, Knees

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

- Rumi

topic: Positive, Perfect, Knees, Islamic Wisdom, Sufi Wisdom

My knees buckled. It's the last thing I expected

- Sally Hawkins

topic: Knees, Lasts, Expected

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

- Salvador Dali

topic: Tired, Knees, Grew

Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an eternal conversation in which the ancient poets remain contemporary, a conversation inviting us into other languages and cultures even as poetry transcends language and culture, returning us again and again to primal rhythms and sounds.

- Sam Hamill

topic: Government, Culture, Knees, Inviting, Primal

Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.

- Sarah Dessen

topic: Strong, Effort, Knees, Weak Spots, Lock And Key

I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

- Shania Twain

topic: Knees, Standing

I wish I could help you" I whisper. You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, okay? Everyone leaves me.

- Simone Elkeles

topic: Wish, Knees, Helping

The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance.

- Sinclair B. Ferguson

topic: Goal, Knees, Worship

I love heels, I'm telling you. When I walk in flats, I get knee pain.

- Sofia Vergara

topic: Pain, Knees, Walks

Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice.

- Sonny Liston

topic: Orange, Boxing, Knees, Orange Juice

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.

- Soren Kierkegaard

topic: Legs, Knees, Different, Thanking Him

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

source: "American Names" l. 30 (1927)

topic: Heart, Knees, Wounded Knee

I mean, the best thing for my knee, for anyone's knee, is to never play again and retire. But I'm not going to do that.

- Steve Yzerman

topic: Mean, Play, Knees, Inspirational Hockey

I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.

- Taylor Lautner

topic: Legs, Knees, Interviews

It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it...

- Tim Henman

topic: Tennis, Knees, Bees

He was on his knees before this female, and he'd gladly stay there for the rest of his life.

- Tina St. John

topic: Female, Knees

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

- Todd Rokita

topic: Knees, Looking Forward, Politician

If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart.

- Toni Braxton

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Heart, Knees, Break

I guess getting down on your knees runs in the family

- Val Venis

topic: Running, Knees

We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.

- Verne Troyer

topic: Dancing, Long, Knees

He pulls me over the railing and against his chest, gathering me into his arms, easing an arm under my knees. I press my face into his shoulder, and there is a sudden, hollow silence.

- Veronica Roth

topic: Silence, Arms, Knees

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

- Vin Scully

topic: Sports, Motivational Sports, Knees

The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!

- W. S. Gilbert

topic: Sailing, Arms, Knees

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

- Wally Lamb

source: Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

topic: Prayer, Want, Knees, Answered Prayers

if they make me watch that movie one more time, I will fall down on my knees and beg for mercy

- Wendy Mass

topic: Fall, Knees, Watches

Praise Him, each savage furious beast That on His stores do daily feast; And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough, Your weary knees to your Creator bow.

- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

topic: Knees, Bows, Savages

When a Man has Married a WifeHe finds out whetherHer Knees & elbows are onlyglued together.

- William Blake

topic: Men, Together, Knees

One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Sleep, Knees, Beloved, Before Sleeping

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

- William Cowper

source: William Cowper, “Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer”

topic: Prayer, Knees, Saint, Inspirational Prayer, Intercessory Prayer

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

- William M. Evarts

source: Quoted in Louisville Courier-Journal, 4 July 1913.

topic: Rocks, Plymouth, Knees, Pious

If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor.

- William Petersen

topic: Athlete, Legs, Knees

Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

- William Wordsworth

topic: Wisdom, Children, Knees

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

- Willie McCovey

topic: Years, Knees, Operations

I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.

- Winston Bennett

source: Winston Bennett (2011). “Fight for Your Life: From Tragedy to Triumph”, p.127, Tate Publishing

topic: Funny, Sports, Knees, Stupidest Celebrity, Afl

I don't really like knees.

- Yves Saint Laurent

source: The Observer, August 3, 1958.

topic: Knees

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

- Zakk Wylde

topic: Knees, Stage

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

- Austin O'Malley

topic: Waiting, Knees, Ifs

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

- Austin O'Malley

topic: Prayer, Shoes, Knees

Some reviewed 'The Master' on their knees, and while I respected its distinctive discordancy - can a movie be at once feverish and glacial? - I was unmoved.

- David Edelstein

topic: Knees, Masters, Distinctive

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