Knees Quotations

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

I am the world's most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I've studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t'ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor.

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.

For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

I don't like my thighs, the back of my legs or my chubby knees. I wear clothes that show off my legs in pictures and videos but not often when I'm appearing live.

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

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

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

Bob summed it up best when he was on his knees at the end of the night saying, 'Don't trust in Guided By Voices.' You were there; was the show awful or something? I know it was sloppy, but they're not really that tight anyway, but was it embarrassing, was it sad?

I call it predicament humor. You don't do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do.

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.

I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'

When I have to do something fast, I wear the most unflattering rubber pants over my pants and a big easy sweater. I can get on my knees in the garden in whatever condition, and when I'm done, I can take it off, get in the car, and drive to the office. It's the most practical thing.

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.

I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.

I walked across Tuscany from Siena to Rome, which was a lovely way to see the landscape. It was sunny but not too hot, and we made detours to look at treasures - churches, paintings, little hill villages. The first couple of days, you feel your knees are turning to jelly. But, at the end, you feel very limber. I hope I can always do it.

I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.

We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.

Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.

During National Playground Safety Week, I'll celebrate common-sense safety. I'll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I'll celebrate so-called 'dangerous' playgrounds - playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides.

A woman is as young as her knees.

Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.

Stryker was a company that allowed me, when I had my knee replaced and I got the Stryker GetAroundKnee put in, to get my career back and get my life back.

Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.

If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart.

First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

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

Your Heavenly Father will help you find the right path as you seek His guidance. Remember though, after you pray you must get off your knees and start doing something positive; head in the right direction! He will send people along the way who will assist you, but you must be doing your part as well.

Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

If you have beautiful knees, show your knees. I'm not a puritan. I love skin.

I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

For cardio, I do SoulCycle. I really don't like to run, plus I have terrible knees and get bored on the elliptical. SoulCycle is basically a dance party on a bicycle, and you burn calories, and it's so fun.

I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.

Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.

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

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.

My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.

Over the last 15 years or so, Manchester has undergone huge transformation - from a city in decline and on its knees to one that is growing, vibrant and confident.

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.

My knee feels good right now. I am definitely able to move about whichever way.

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control...My hotel check-in name used to be Mr BL Zebub.

At my wedding, I was dancing so furiously that I fell hard on my kneecaps. The next morning, my knees were so swollen that I had to get a wheelchair at the airport to go on my honeymoon.

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.

I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.

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.

We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008.

I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.

I love heels, I'm telling you. When I walk in flats, I get knee pain.

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.

I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that.

I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the knee.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.

Running is bad for your knees, and I like to do things I actually enjoy, like going for a swim.

Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.

How do you know someone is a grandparent? They've got milk stains on every shirt from burping babies. Their pants are worn out at the knees from crawling around giving pony rides. They have 2,842 pictures of the grandkids on their smart phone and not one photo of their spouse.

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.

We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to see a child hurt, even if it's just a scraped knee. But on the other hand, children need to take on physical challenges to learn and grow, and scraped knees and other bumps and bruises teach them valuable lessons about their own limits.

I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

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

I was a floor model at I. Magnin. I'm 5 feet 7, but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long, but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I'd be 5 feet 9.

On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember which knee. The scene in which I was fighting the big German mechanic on an airplane called a flying wing, I was run over by the landing gear and injured my knee, but I can't remember which one it was. Lots of bumps and injuries along the way.

The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak - I literally lost my breath!

We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why we must repent and come to Christ daily on submissive knees so that we can prevent our bonfires of testimony from being snuffed out by sin.

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

I thank Him every chance I get - on my knees praying.

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.

We've actually seen them so close that you can see the spout but you can't see the whale. You have to crawl out on your hands and knees and look out over the rocks. They like to come up and rub against the rocks.

Usually, it takes a funky bounce after a block, but this one came right up and it was, 'Whoa! Look at this! I said, 'This is it,' and started running. You know, high knees and pumping arms, and the guys were blocking for me. It's been since high school that I scored a TD.

We're reaching a point in the season when knees are starting to get a little bit tender, and shoulders. Especially in the men's game, you know, you've got 190 pounds, it's not the jumping, it's the landing. I want us to be as fresh as possible in late April or May. If we gotta give them some days off and let them recover, I think with the men it's real important to do that.

Ultimately, he's got to pitch at the knees and then go up in the strike zone. His motor runs pretty high, and he wants to pitch up early.

We have scarcely gotten home . . . when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so.

When he gets going, he?s extremely powerful. He loves physical contact. He?s strong on his feet, has a low center of gravity and accelerates into hits with his knees bent.

Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.

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

Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

All you fakers are in for it. I begged you on my knees and you didn't listen and now I can't hear you.

Courage is fear on its knees.

You know you can't just run and shoot people in the knee-caps with double barreled shotgun 'cause you're pissed at them.

I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn't have acted that, I couldn't have written that.

The punt returner got smacked like Nancy Kerrigan's knee on souvenir pipe night.

The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees.