Knees Quotes - Page 17

• It is a grueling position (catching). My knees will tell you that. I've had nine knee surgeries. I've had a couple of broken thumbs, one on each hand. I can look back at it and say it's worth it to be enshrined in Cooperstown. I don't have any pain in my knees right now.

  Gary Carter

  Couple, Pain, Hands

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• That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

  Jim Elliot

  Saint, Retreat

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• A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.

  Genghis Khan

  Horse, Men, Enemy

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• The best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the muscles of the torso, back, legs, arms and knees, with bones underneath.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Beauty, Memories, Exercise

  Giorgio Vasari (1907). “Vasari on technique: being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture and painting, prefixed to the Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects”

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• This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome. ...I cared not how or where I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls for Christ.

  David Brainerd

  Morning, Prayer, Soul

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• Eighteen years ago, my left knee I hurt. I've never had a knee injury in the pros.

  Brian Leetch

  Hurt, Years, Knee Injuries

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• The more kilos you have to move around, the more it weighs on your knees. Then of course in terms of stamina, the way you move around, it's a little extra. It might not be much, but when you exercise with two, three extra kilos, you can feel a difference; it's important.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Moving, Exercise, Two

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• There's no appreciation for the giants [of jazz]; there's never been a major film on Duke Ellington , never a major film on Louis Armstrong. What they accomplished, we could never accomplish today...What's happening now is lightweight compared to what happened before. If Louis Armstrong was alive today, he'd be a superstar. If Art Tatum was alive today, my god, all the piano players would get on their knees. So that's what's missing today; we've been cut off from our heritage.

  Randy Weston

  Music, Appreciation, Art

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• I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Ducks, Jazz, Creation

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

  Wally Lamb

  Prayer, Want, Get Up

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.

  Mamie Till

  Past, White, Bows

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• I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse.
  I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea.
  You may bury my body in Sussex grass,
  You may bury my tongue at Champmedy.
  I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass.
  Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Lying, Heart, Body

  "American Names" l. 30 (1927)

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• If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

  Joel Salatin

  Animal, Joints, Week

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

  Richard Rohr

  Law, Immature, Reacting

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• Woman must be put back in her place. Man’s great error was to put woman on a pedestal, when she is far more at ease on her knees – where she belongs. … Woman must be reacquainted with truth and force. She must be reacquainted with truth through force. … She must be shown in no uncertain terms the absolute nature of the master/slave relationship endemic to the sexes.

  Boyd Rice

  Sex, Men, Errors

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• We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

  Charles Stanley

  Distance, Remember, Problem

  Charles Stanley (2011). “Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living”, p.7, David C Cook

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• The weather's cold. My club's bad. My knee hurts. I can't putt no more. I'm off my diet. My wife is nagging me. Other than that, everything's great.

  Don Zimmer

  Hurt, Weather, Wife

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• Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

  Joan Didion

  Distance, Grief, Eye

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Mar 19, 2013

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• Prayer is not an act of worship merely, the bending of the knee on set occasions, and offering petitions in need. It is an attitude of soul, opening the life on the Godward side, and keeping free communication with the world of spirit.

  Hugh Black

  Prayer, Attitude, Communication

  Hugh Black (1999). “The Art of Being a Good Friend: How to Bring Out the Best in Your Friends and in Yourself”, p.142, Sophia Institute Press

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• Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.

  James O. Fraser

  Missionary, Done, Lasting

  "Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser" by Geraldine Taylor, Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., (p. 52), 1998.

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• This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have bowed me upon my knees in tears.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Cities, Soul, Sorrow

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• Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an eternal conversation in which the ancient poets remain contemporary, a conversation inviting us into other languages and cultures even as poetry transcends language and culture, returning us again and again to primal rhythms and sounds.

  Sam Hamill

  Government, Sound, Culture

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• Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. What! Than ten hours over your books on your knees?

  B. B. Warfield

  Book, Giving, Over You

  B. B. Warfield (2018). “The Religious Life of Theological Students”, p.4, CrossReach Publications via PublishDrive

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• I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.

  Jay Kay

  Littles, Stage, Bits

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• Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.

  David Leavitt

  Passion, Writing, Tired

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