Knees Quotes - Page 18

• To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, 'There. That taste. That's the taste of my childhood.'

  Pat Conroy

  Growing Up, Memories, Spring

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees

  Harry Belafonte

  America, Globalization, Corporate

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• Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it's twenty-three.

  George Clooney

  Cute, Hurt, Thinking

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• At the finish of the effect look at the audience: if they have gone white in the face, froth at the mouth with excitement,shake at the knees or get down on the floor and salaam you-it is quite a fair trick.

  Tony Corinda

  White, Magic, Looks

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• Lansens is a willing storyteller.... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported--who might sit at her knee, the hearth.

  Noah Richler

  Heart, Desire, Want

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• A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it's not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Sleep, Dental Floss

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• I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I dont want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, its really hot, were up to our knees in a river of crap. Rats and cockroaches are all over. I would never, ever walk into that environment, except for the fact that the guy who does it every day is squatting next to me.

  Mike Rowe

  Rivers, San Francisco, Guy

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• I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

  Dave Gahan

  Names, Praying, Used

  "This much I know". Interview with Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2007.

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• For when down on the knees
  The man (or god) stretches the arms
  In giving,
  It is no accident the hands
  Are curled like bowls or cups,
  For he offers self, yet
  Begs it back again.

  Edith Tiempo

  Men, Self, Hands

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• The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Rivers, Appreciate, Water

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• Christmas in Bethlehem. The earliest dream: a cold, clear night made bright by a magnificent star, the smell of anger, marshals and clever men falling to their knees in love of the lovely baby, the avatar of faultless love...!!!

  Lucinda Franks

  Dream, Baby, Stars

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• ObamaCare is not a 'trainwreck,' it is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate, so we agree under duress to accept big government.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Suicide, Hurt, Obamacare

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• He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

  Aldo Leopold

  Spring, Mud, Abundance

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.56, Oxford University Press

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• I witness that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. He suffered and died for our sins and rose the third day. He is resurrected. In a future day, every knee will bow and every tongue confess that He is the Christ. On that day, our concern will not be, 'Do others consider me Christian?' At that time, our eyes will be fixed on Him, and our souls will be riveted on the question, 'What thinks Christ of me?'

  Neil L. Andersen

  Christian, Jesus, Eye

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• 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, Affection

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• If you are never satisfied with what you write, that is a good sign. It means that your vision can see so far that it's hard to come up to it. Again I say - the only unfortunate people are the glib ones, immediately satisfied with their work. To them, the ocean is only knee-deep.

  Brenda Ueland

  Ocean, Writing, Mean

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• Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.

  John Smith

  Prayer, Yield, Waiting

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• The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter.  In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.

  Nick Bantock

  Country, Stars, Needs

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• I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.

  Jenny Eclair

  Mother, Dad, Hair

  "A funny five minutes with Jenny Eclair". Interview with Mirror.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

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• Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Tongue, Bows

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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

  Martin Luther

  Needs, Today, Hours

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• Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

  Jim Elliot

  Son, Men, Thinking

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• You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to use your knee. What you do is, you put your right knee behind it and half kick it up in the air. That way you get some lift on it. ... My point is, there are certain ways to make a hard job easier.

  Pat Summitt

  Jobs, Air, Hay

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• Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.

  Michael Jackson

  Looks, Dignity, Please

  Song: 2 Bad, Album: Michael

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• Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Fighting

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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