Knees Quotations | Page 5

Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

He pulls me over the railing and against his chest, gathering me into his arms, easing an arm under my knees. I press my face into his shoulder, and there is a sudden, hollow silence.

The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating.

Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;When thou art old there's grief enough for thee.

When I got 'Lost,' I was about to not be able to live, so it was a fall-to-the-knees, burst-into-tears, 'I'm saved by this great role' moment.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.

Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it.

The ball goes down the keeper's throat where it hits him on the knees to say the least.

I mean, the best thing for my knee, for anyone's knee, is to never play again and retire. But I'm not going to do that.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

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

The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!

Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks.

How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.

I don't really like knees.

If an army marches on its stomach a Church advances on its knees.

Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.

Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'

Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.

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

Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.

If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

I have been driven to my knees many times because there was no place else to go.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

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.

No nation is ever taller than when on its knees...

On our knees we are the most powerful force on earth

We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.

To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.

When a man has married a wife, he finds out whether / Her knees and elbows are only glued together.

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

God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between!

That saint who advances on his knees never retreats...

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.

.. all the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek ...

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

Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.

The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God to walk in the room. And when I write something that I know is right, I get on my knees and say 'thank you.'

I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees.

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.

I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he...

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

She's so pure, Moses couldn't even part her knees.

The only people without problems are in cemeteries. If you don't have problems, get on your knees and pray.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.

Never be too proud to go onto your knees before God.

I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.

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

Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. [. . . ] You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head's in a whirl. And then you feel light as a feather, and before you know it, you're walking on air. And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop, and you completely lose your head!

Throw high risers at the chin; throw peas at the knees; throw it here when they're lookin' there; throw it there when they're lookin' here.

When a Man has Married a WifeHe finds out whetherHer Knees & elbows are onlyglued together.

One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere.