Quotes with knees

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

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  • William Shakespeare Bow, stubborn knees!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Abraham Lincoln 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.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Emiliano Zapata It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
    Emiliano Zapata
    Mexican revolutionary (1879 - 1919)
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  • Victor Hugo Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • H. Ross Perot Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Bede Griffiths 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
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Bill Hybels I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer...but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Walton I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Bill Watterson If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
    Buckminster Fuller: starting with the universe (2008)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Adam Savage Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Barry Marshall My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Brock Lesnar My strength is my wrestling, but I don't focus on it as much. I try to focus on a lot of different things like knees, elbows, submissions, and submission defense - just a lot of different things.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Allen Ginsberg Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, jiggling your knees blankly in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Arthur Rimbaud One evening I sat Beauty on my knees -And I found her bitter -And I reviled her.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Austin O'Malley Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Douglas Jerrold Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Douglas Jerrold Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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