Knees Quotes - Page 3

• 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, Praying, Fierce

  "MythBusters/ Quicksand/Bathtub/Electrocution/MRI Rays and Tattoos". Documentary, Mystery, Reality-TV, 2004.

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• It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.

  Dwight Schultz

  Mean, People, Community

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• 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

  Christmas, Toes, Rings

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• The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.

  Serena Williams

  Play, Percent, Knows

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• 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

  Different, Goes On, Literature

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  I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Life, Positive, Death

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• We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

  Olive Schreiner

  Sleep, Equality, Ties

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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• We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Believe, Feet

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

  Maria Callas

  Enemy, I Can

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

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• Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Heart, Religion, Skinned Knees

  1830 The Devil's Ducat, act 1, sc.2.

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• 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

  School, Balls, Natural

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• The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  Inspirational, Basketball, College

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• A woman is as young as her knees.

  Mary Quant

  Journey, Hiking, Sauntering

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

  Austin O'Malley

  Prayer, Shoes, Praying

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• I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Christian, Feet, Trying

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• I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?

  Sharon Stone

  Phones, Lipstick

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

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.158, Editora Dracaena

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• I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.

  Sasha Alexander

  Fake People, Knee Injuries, Want

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

  Zakk Wylde

  Stage

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• I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Softball

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• Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Memories, Play, Stories

  Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• A man is powerful on his knees.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Prayer, Powerful, Men

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• Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

  Hosea Ballou

  Family, Mom, Education

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

  Mia Hamm

  Softball, Perseverance, Goal

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• Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.

  Patricia Heaton

  Children, Husband, Feel Better

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