Knee Quotes
335 quotes by 310 authors
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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…
— Margaret Atwood
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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
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In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for…
— Gerry Adams
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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…
— Mayim Bialik
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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…
— Pam Brown
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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…
— Kobe Bryant
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That best academy, a mother's knee.
— James Russell Lowell
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I hadn't been onstage in a while. The last time was pre-children. And before I went on [at Roseland], my kids were backstage, and I…
— Madonna Ciccone
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Stories first heard at mothers knee are never wholly forgotten.
— Giovanni Ruffini
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The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.
— Alexander Vandegrift
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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
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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…
— Lavinia Agache
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Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?
— Vin Scully
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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…
— Carl Levin
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[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society...
— Theophile Gautier
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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…
— Sasha Alexander
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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…
— Pierre Loti
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
— T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
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All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work…
— Samuel Logan Brengle
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One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old…
— William Crawford Williamson
Who Wrote These Knee Quotes
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