Knees Quotes - Page 6

• Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

  Placido Domingo

  Fall, Careers, Giving

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• With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

  Cathy Freeman

  Cancer, Firsts, First Time

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

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• Picture you upon my knee, just tea for two and two for tea.

  Irving Caesar

  Two, Tea

  "Tea for Two" (song) (1924)

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• I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit.

  Terry Fox

  Broken Heart, Hurt, Sorry

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• The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

  William M. Evarts

  Rocks, Plymouth, Firsts

  Quoted in Louisville Courier-Journal, 4 July 1913.

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• If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.

  Zach Wamp

  Islamic, Israel, Iraq

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• When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

  Dominic Chianese

  Sight, Years, Singing

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• I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.

  Guy Forget

  Practice, Knee Injuries, Each Day

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• Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

  Renee Zellweger

  Girl, Dream, Children

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• Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.

  Paul Weyrich

  Country, Islamic, Opportunity

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• If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

  William Petersen

  Sports, Football, Player

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• Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  José Clemente Orozco (2014). “José Clemente Orozco: An Autobiography”, p.24, University of Texas Press

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• I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

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• Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

  Edith Wharton

  Touching, Fans, Littles

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest and most contagious of joys and their grief the deepest and most devastating. Their passions bring us to our knees in delight and sorrow.

  Marc Bekoff

  Motivational, Grief, Passion

  Marc Bekoff (2010). “The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy — and Why They Matter”, p.19, New World Library

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• Falling in love is painful on the knees.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Falling In Love, Pain, Love Is

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• Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Straws

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• my sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for, my sister isabel created hundreds (and hundreds) of socks not to mention shirts fleaproof earwarmers etcetera wristers etcetera, my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privilege and if only he could meanwhile my self etcetera lay quietly in the deep mud et cetera (dreaming, et cetera, of Your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera)

  e. e. cummings

  Mother, Dream, Sweet

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life, Fall, Clouds

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.227, A&C Black

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• I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning

  Joseph Heller

  Dark, Night, Knives

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die, where on my knees I prayed for LIGHT, I prayed for l*i*g*h*t, and praying crawled like a blind slug into the web where threads of wind stuck against my mind and I died of pity for Man, for myself, on a cross without nails, watching in fear as the pig belches in his sty, farts, blinks and eats.

  Charles Bukowski

  Rain, Men, Wind

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• I will be your friend,' I said. 'I will go home to my mother's house the way I did when I skinned my knees as a little girl. I'll go and let myself be consoled by my roses, my palm trees, my enormous volcanoes in San Salvador. When you are old, maybe you'll come and see me someday.

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

  Girl, Mother, Home

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• After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next door brought her down. He forced her knees to the road and suffered the penalty. He collected her punches as if they were presents. Her bony hands and elbows were accepted with nothing but a few short moans. He accumulated the loud, clumsy specks of saliva and tears as if they were lovely to his face, and more important, he was able to hold her down.

  Markus Zusak

  Girl, Boys, Doors

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• Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Children, Father, Men

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• What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Looks

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