Knees Quotes - Page 36

• The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.

  Alexander Vandegrift

  Military, Marine, Usmc

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• Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Work, Garden, Hands

  History of England (1911) "The Glory of the Garden"

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• Looking at life through the eyes of a Daddy long legs: Imagine walking on legs so long you could cover a mile in fifty strides! Imagine looking to either side through eyes set not in your head but in a... hump in your back! Imagine your knees, when you walked, working a dozen feet or more above your head.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Eye, Garden, Feet

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• If I get run into again, I'm taking someone with me. I lost one knee. I'll take a head if it happens again.

  Grant Fuhr

  Running, Hockey, Nhl

  Grant Fuhr, Bruce Dowbiggin (2014). “Grant Fuhr: The Story of a Hockey Legend”, p.150, Random House Canada

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• When I broke my knee, no one cared how I was; they just wanted me to get better and come back to gymnastics to win more medals for their country.

  Lavinia Agache

  Country, Gymnastics, Winning

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

  Vin Scully

  Sports, Funny Baseball, Day To Day

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• [T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.

  Keith Olbermann

  Country, Struggle, Defense

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• Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination. On every side we see big two-fisted he-men floundering round in three figures, stopping every few minutes to let through little shrimps with knock-knees and hollow cheeks, who are tearing up snappy seventy-fours.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Two

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.189, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Joan Rivers

  Sarcastic, Hillarious, Moses

  "The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes". Book by Geoff Tibballs, 2012.

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• Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America ... (She is) the light of the world ... A nation of heroes ... The real stars are wearing body armor on top of their battle dress uniforms in 130 degree heat and they do not have stunt doubles to come in for them when the going gets rough and the bullets and the shrapnel start flying. They are the real stars, fighting terrorism and trying to free a nation.

  Ben Stein

  Morning, Stars, Military

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• We shouldn't knee jerk anything. The Iraqi government a few years back, when they had a chance to sign an agreement that would keep some of our presence there, refused to do it. So we've got to be very careful and thoughtful before we do anything.

  Carl Levin

  Military, Thoughtful, Government

  "GOP on Iraq: We told you so" Jeremy Herb and Burgess Everett, www.politico.com. June 12, 2014.

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• [A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society.

  Theophile Gautier

  Lying, Cat, Evening

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• Never assume that you can make it alone. You need the help of the Lord. Never hesitate to get on your knees in some private place and speak with Him.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspiration, Needs, Helping

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• Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

  Michael Douglas

  Cancer, Feet, Inspirational Cancer

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• The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut also by another of God's creative principles: that humanity has free will. What that means is that in any given moment, it is our choice whether we move toward love or retreat from it. What is not love is fear. But in the larger scheme of things, there is a limit past which lovelessness cannot remain. Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Moving, Mean

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Thanking Him, Legs, Different

  "Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper (1841), 1959.

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• She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: 'Give baby a kiss...'

  Isaac Babel

  Baby, Husband, Kissing

  Isaac Babel (2005). “Red Cavalry and Other Stories”, p.65, Penguin UK

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• His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
  There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
  He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
  To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgettin'
  What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud
  He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out
  He's chokin', how, everybody's jokin' now
  The clocks run out, times up, over, blaow!

  Eminem

  Mom, Running, Rap

  "Song: 'Lose Yourself'". 2002.

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• If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen - sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved.

  Pierre Loti

  Writing, Cat, Animal

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• It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

  Victor Hugo

  Science, Men, Names

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• Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.

  Richard Dawkins

  Father, Reality, Suffering

  "Science saves". www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2004.

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• On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist all week and then on Sunday get down on his knees and pray to God. Frankly I've never been able to understand it because you would need two totally different compartments in your brain, one that deals with religion and the other with everything else.

  Ernst Mayr

  Sunday, Hands, Two

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• They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.

  Solomon Northup

  Fear, Prayer, Ignorant

  Solomon Northup (2016). “Twelve Years a Slave”, p.135, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Meditation is basically the process of witnessing: looking from your centre all that is happening. Many things are happening on the outside - the noise of the train far away; something is happening in you body - your knees are hurting - right? Your mind is churning many thoughts, that 'What am I doing here?' Your heart is feeling many emotions, you have waited for this moment for so long. There is joy in the heart, a certain ecstasy, a mood, a receptivity. All those things have to be watched very minutely.

  Rajneesh

  Hurt, Heart, Long

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• To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home,
  To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee
  I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome.

  Christina Rossetti

  Mother, Home, Heart

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.416, Delphi Classics

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