Knees Quotes - Page 4

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

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Courage

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

  Sonny Liston

  Orange Juice, Boxing, Orange

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• At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.

  Hermann Maier

  Motivational, Pain, Athlete

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

  Michael Reagan

  Dad, Littles, Sometimes

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

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• I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

  Marie Windsor

  Shoes, Ballet, Boots

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

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

  Lee Majors

  Football, College, Young

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

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• Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

  Charles Bent

  Prayer, Might, Praying

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• I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Monsters, Glad

  "This imagined U.S. Open course shows no mercy" by Doug Williams, www.espn.com. Junt 8, 2017.

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• I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

  George Weah

  Country, Peace, People

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• In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.

  Gerry Adams

  Struggle, Eye, Past

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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• The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

  Tori Amos

  Trying, Bleeding, Violence

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• The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak - I literally lost my breath!

  Jennifer Aniston

  Firsts, Weak, Lost

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• Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lying, Sadness, People

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.119, University of Georgia Press

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• 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

  Hope, Cat, Lasts

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• You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Patriotic, Political

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• My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Mother, Pain

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• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Wisdom, Prayer

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.636, Wordsworth Editions

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• Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

  Ross Perot

  Pain, Failure, Problem

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• I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

  Euripides

  Freedom, Feet, Human Rights

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• Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.'

  Les Dawson

  Mother, Angel, Beer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

  Frank Langella

  Self, Long, Hatred

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• Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

  Samuel Ullman

  Life, Determination, Spring

  "Youth". Essay by Samuel Ullman, www.beliefnet.com. 1920.

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• When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Agnostic, Praying

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• I would rather die standing than live kneeling

  Charb

  Life, Attitude, Future

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• If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

  Bill Watterson

  Life, Fun, Garden

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