Knees Quotes - Page 3

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

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

Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.

Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way.

I bend my knee to no man. Unless I choose to.

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.

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

Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.

We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.

A woman is as young as her knees.

Handel, to him I bow the knee.

You can't just tip your hat to Jesus; you must bow your knee.

Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.

I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

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

One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

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.

He was not subordinate to God - Adam was walking as a god! What he said "went," what he did "counted"; and when he bowed his knee to Satan and put Satan up above him then there wasn't anything God could do about it because a "god" had placed Satan there. Adam, remember, was created in the god-class, but when he committed high treason he fell below the god-class.

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

I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.