Knees Quotes

1207 Knees quotes by 922 unique authors

There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the… — Toni Morrison
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. — Euripides
Get your dirty stinking moron knees off my chest. — J D Salinger
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his… — Ayn Rand
I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own… — Tom Waits
Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot… — Hugh Laurie
She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed… — Aleister Crowley
Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their… — Cormac McCarthy
Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men.… — Elizabeth Smart
I've found my missin' piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I've found my missin' piece! — Shel Silverstein
We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and… — Homer
The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood.… — Margaret Sanger
She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give… — Denis Johnson
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees,… — Victor Hugo
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and… — Abraham Lincoln
He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and glide… — Ken Kesey
She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last of the Apaches, and Ursala's… — Eva Ibbotson
And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time.… — Nicholas Sparks
What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a… — C.S. Lewis
It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of… — Poppy Z. Brite
He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work. — Gordon B. Hinckley
The Magus must had eyes like a thief because he told Pol to stop and dismount to walk alongside me, one hand resting just above… — Megan Whalen Turner
If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly. — C.S. Lewis

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