Knees Quotes

• I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Faith, Attitude

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Sports, Dark, Umpires

  "Lynne Truss is latest in a tradition of distaff talents to grace the sportspages" by Frank Keating, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2009.

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

  Rumi

  Positive, Islamic, I Hate You

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• The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

  Rona Barrett

  Inspiring, Strong, Health

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• The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Running, Volleyball

  "El Guerrouj digs deep for long-awaited gold" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2004.

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• Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.

  Charles Stanley

  Fighting, Winning, Battle

  Charles Stanley (2008). “Charles Stanley's Handbook for Christian Living: Biblical Answers to Life's Tough Questions”, p.544, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

  Aeschylus

  Feet, Libertarian, Progressive

  Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.135, Penguin

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• We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth

  Ian Mcewan

  Hands, Goes On, Way

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• 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

  Praying, Get Up, Wells

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

  William Cowper

  Prayer, Devil, Saint

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

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  Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

  Bear Bryant

  Proud, Praying

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• Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill.

  Margaret Chan

  Children, Moving, Mean

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• At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.

  Aimee Mullins

  Glasses, Age, Hips

  "US Paralympics TV coverage disappointing, says chef de mission" by Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Atheism, Framed, Reason

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• Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fists, Clue, Solutions

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle”, Treasure Press

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• Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wise, Wisdom, Science

  1944 Time Must Have a Stop

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• Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

  Sylvester Stallone

  Strength, Stay Strong, Moving Forward

  "Rocky Balboa". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Religion, Atheism, Calling

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• I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

  Kobe Bryant

  Hurt, Badass, Night

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• It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Heartbreaking, Might

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• I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.

  Hilary Mantel

  Children, Memories, Grandmother

  "Mantel Takes Up Betrayal, Beheadings In 'Bodies'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 26, 2012.

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• What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Sharks, People

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

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• I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.

  Tim Tebow

  Mom, Jesus, Children

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

  Lech Walesa

  Prudence

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• A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating who we are. I learned at my mother's knee it's better to appreciate what's happening... I think we kind of talk ourselves into the negative sometimes.

  Betty White

  Mother, Thinking, Talking

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

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