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• Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

  Roger Ebert

  Years, Daddy, Election

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Ankles, Looking Good, Neat

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• Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

  T. S. Eliot

  Christmas, Children, Moving

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.95, Faber & Faber

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• The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  Inspirational, Basketball, College

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• Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

  Euripides

  Love, Men, Heaven

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• 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.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Stress, Home, Circles

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• Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

  Bill Gates

  Simple, Hands, People

  "Unleash the Billionaire Within: Learn the Mastermind Principles for Acquiring Wealth Beyond Imagination". Book by Esmonde Holowaty, p. 298, 2011.

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• 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.

  Olive Schreiner

  Sleep, Equality, Ties

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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• I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.

  Maria Callas

  Enemy, I Can

  "Callas : The Art and the Life". Book by John Ardoin, 1974.

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  I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Life, Positive, Death

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• Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

  David Hume

  Passion, Men, Melancholy

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2007). “A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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• The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Prayer, Destiny, Men

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• A woman is as young as her knees.

  Mary Quant

  Journey, Hiking, Sauntering

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

  Austin O'Malley

  Prayer, Shoes, Praying

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• I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Christian, Feet, Trying

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• No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.158, Editora Dracaena

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• I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?

  Sharon Stone

  Phones, Lipstick

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• I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.

  Sasha Alexander

  Fake People, Knee Injuries, Want

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• I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

  Zakk Wylde

  Stage

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• I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Softball

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• Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Memories, Play, Stories

  Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• A man is powerful on his knees.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Prayer, Powerful, Men

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• I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

  Marie Windsor

  Shoes, Ballet, Boots

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

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• The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Courage

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• Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

  Hosea Ballou

  Family, Mom, Education

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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