Knees Quotes - Page 5

• When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.

  Eric Dickerson

  Sports, Tired, Hands

  "Eric Dickerson, Class of 1999". Pro Football Hall of Fame biography, www.profootballhof.com. January 01, 2005.

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• Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

  Robert Hughes

  Sports, Football, Sea

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.300, Vintage

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• It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Impossible, Loses

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• I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.

  Che Guevara

  Live Life, Standing, Dies

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• There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle
  And dark desperate hours that nobody sees
  My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain
  My head in my hands down on my knees

  Stevie Nicks

  Dark, Eagles, Hands

  Song: Sometimes It's A Bitch

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• I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.

  Victor Borge

  Mother, Play, Piano

  "Laughter Was at the Heart of Victor Borge's Many Talents". "The Boston Globe" Newspaper, December 29, 2000.

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• Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Real, Should Have

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As I like to say, take the shot, even if your knees are shaking.

  Robin Roberts

  Inspirational, Shots, Ifs

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• I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo.

  Lord Byron

  Echoes, World, Patient

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 113

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• Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Trying, Literature

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.88, Ballantine Books

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• I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Tired, Humor

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• God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

  Bede Griffiths

  God, Easter, Yoga

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• The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Doors, Differences

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• Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.

  Andy Murray

  Normal, Easier

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

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• All right." He straightened up and seemed to be true to his promise to let it go. "I will be a man about this." That lasted until he saw the scratches on the hood from the mountain lion and the front fender, Where Abigail had dragged it off the driveway. Wailing, he went to it and sank to his knees. He sprawled over the hood and laid his head on the damaged fender. "I'm so sorry, Bets. I should of hidden the keys. Booted your tires. Something. I had know idea anyone would hurt you so, baby. I swear I'll never let anyone hurt you again. Ayyy, how could they do this to you? How? Oh the humanity!

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Hurt, Sorry

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.260, Macmillan

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• I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.

  Marian McPartland

  Needs, Get Up, Walks

  "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

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• If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor.

  William Petersen

  Athlete, Actors, Legs

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• Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

  Steve Earle

  Lakes, Hands, Sea

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• We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.

  Verne Troyer

  Long, Dancing, Routine

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

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• My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that

  Tony Goldwyn

  Memories, Parent, Hollywood

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• On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery--so much life, so much to live for--yet somehow, I'm certain he would have loved to see the frightening rubble and the swelling of the sky on the night he passed away. He'd have cried and turned and smiled if only he could have seen the book thief on her hands and knees, next to his decimated body. He'd have been glad to witness her kissing his dusty, bomb-hit lips. Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it all right. You see? Even death has a heart.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Heart, Dark

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• I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

  Shania Twain

  Kneeling, Standing, Dies

  Song: Black Eyes, Blue Tears, Album: Come On Over

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• Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse

  Lee Majors

  Stuff, Serious, Replacements

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• You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together.

  Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

  Girl, School, Should Have

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• My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.

  Picabo Street

  Strong, Years, Two

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