Knees Quotes - Page 20

• The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Angel, Lessons

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• It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Ideals, Acquire

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• 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, Stills

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• 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

  Wonder, Ricochet, Cosmic

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems”, p.111, Vintage

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• If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

  Toni Morrison

  White, People, Serious

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• A certain desperation is usually necessary before we're ready for God... Until your knees finally hit the floor, you're just playing at life, and on some level you're scared because you know you're just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins

  Marianne Williamson

  Levels, Scared, Life Is

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• People are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Eye, Long, People

  J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com

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• Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.

  J. C. Ryle

  Thinking, Trials, World

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• We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.

  Ann Voskamp

  Jesus, Doors, Sanctuary

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• 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

  Years, Perfectly Natural, Joints

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• They'll be days like this" my momma said.
  When you open your hands to catch, and wind up with only blisters and bruises.
  When you try to step out of the phone booth and try to fly , and the very people you want to save, are the ones standing on your cape.
  When your boots will fill with rain, and you'll be up to your knees with disappointment
  And those are the very days you have all the more reason to say "Thank you".

  Sarah Kay

  Disappointment, Rain, Phones

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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• Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Religion, Gardening, Done

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• All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air. With one enormous chair; Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Lots of choc'late for me to eat; Lots of coal makin' lots of heat. Warm face, warm 'ands, warm feet, Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Oh, so loverly sittin' abso-bloomin'-lutely still! I would never budge 'til spring crept over my window sill. Someone's head restin' on my knee; Warm and tender as he can be, who takes good care of me; Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Loverly, loverly, loverly, loverly.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Spring, Night, Air

  "Fictional character: Eliza Doolittle". "My Fair Lady", 1964.

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• My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction.

  Marion G. Romney

  Adversity, Soul, Growth

  Marion G. Romney (1971). “Look to God and live: discourses of Marion G. Romney”

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• Come all you mad and raging fearless friends of war and peace,
  Come all you sad self-righteous frightened friends down on your bended knees,
  All beings on this earth, you must not harm them;
  All weapons you hold deep within your heart, you must disarm them.
  Every man you meet's your son.
  Every woman is your daughter.
  Go find someeone who's thirsty,
  And give them water.

  Butch Hancock

  Music, Daughter, War

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• Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication with their Maker. What they never say except upon their knees, he said in his palpitating compositions.

  Frederic Chopin

  Music, Communication, Giving

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• I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word...I would be so overpowered with a sense of God's Infinite Majestey, that I would be contrained to throw myself on the ground, and offer my soul as a blank in His hands, to write on it what He pleased.

  George Whitefield

  Book, Writing, Hands

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• It happens all the time in heaven,
  And some day
  
  It will begin to happen
  Again on earth -
  
  That men and women who are married,
  And men and men who are
  Lovers,
  
  And women and women
  Who give each other
  Light,
  
  Often will get down on their knees
  
  And while so tenderly
  Holding their lover's hand,
  
  With tears in their eyes,
  Will sincerely speak, saying,
  
  My dear,
  How can I be more loving to you;
  
  How can I be more kind?

  Hafez

  Eye, Men, Hands

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• How to celebrate the 50th birthday: Go on your knees and thank God (Jesus Christ) for the life of T.B. Joshua. Pray for the Church of God for a strong bond of love. Pray for your nation and the whole world. As you rededicate yourself to the acts of giving for the rest of your life, God bless you. Happy Birthday!

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Strong, Giving

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• If you ever want to see heaven, watch a bunch of young girls play. They are all sweat and skinned knees. Energy and open faces.

  Amy Poehler

  Girl, Play, Sweat

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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• God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.

  Mark Batterson

  Powerful, Hands, Knows

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

  Sally Hawkins

  Lasts, Expected

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• Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.

  Ruby Dee

  Jobs, Feet, Shelter

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• Frederick Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the best of times in a combination of both.

  Michael Mewshaw

  Laughter, Prayer, Astonishment

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• 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, Praying, Moments

  Amy Welborn (2002). “Prove It! Prayer”, p.36, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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