Knees Quotes

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

Even if the skies were shorter than my knees, I would not kneel.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

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

God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere.

I would rather die on my feet than continue living on my knees.

I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees.

I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.

The more you walk with God, the harder it is to scrape your knee

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

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

Earrings are like orgasms. You can never have too many." " I never thought about it quite that way." Well, you're a man. " She gave his knee a friendly pat.

We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

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

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

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

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

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.

Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

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

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?

Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it.

It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.

We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.

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.

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.

That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

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.

The full squat is a perfectly natural position for the leg to occupy. That's why there is a joint in the middle of it, and why humans have been occupying this position, both unloaded and loaded, for millions of years. Much longer, in fact, than quasi-intellect ual morons have been telling us that it's 'bad' for the knees.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees.

This is what it's like to get old: you still feel 19, except your knees hurt...

You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.

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

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

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

I guess getting down on your knees runs in the family

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.'

Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.

Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice.

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees.

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.

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