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Quotes About Knees

The camel, at the close of day, Kneels down upon the sandy plain To have his burden lifted off And rest again. My soul, thou too should to thy knees When daylight draweth to a close, And let thy Master lift the load And grant repose.
~ Anonymous
The end comes, no matter what. The only thing that matters is, how do you want to go out, on your feet or on your knees?
~ Richard Jenkins
He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.
~ Phillip W. Simpson, Rapture
I grab the nearest lamppost when my knees threaten to give out, panting for breath as the words rip through me
~ Ashley Earley, Alone in Paris
The only memory I have of playing the saxophone was in a school play. We put on 'Grease,' which is still one of my favorite movies. I played Danny, and I slid out on my knees and played a really out-of-tune 'Blue Moon.'
~ Ed Skrein
The fatal stoop. It's guaranteed to bring a man to his knees. (Kristen) It sounds dangerous. What am I supposed to do, knock him over the head with something? (Serenity)
~ Kinley MacGregor
Reparations," said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding. Will looked at him in puzzlement. "Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine is 'genuphobia'. It means an unreasonable fear of knees." "What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?" inquired Jessamine.
~ Cassandra Clare
Rubies flew like drops of blood from the chest of a dying prince, and he sank to his knees in the water and with his last breath murmured a woman's name.
~ George R.R. Martin
Regret, I know, is a powerful remainder; it can bring the strongest man to his knees.
~ Kristin Hannah
Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. "Come and get me.
~ Cassandra Clare
Therefore, when I faced a congregation, it began to take all the strength I had not to stammer, not to curse, not to tell them to throw away their Bibles and get off their knees and go home and organize, for example, a rent strike.
~ James Baldwin
The catcher is a groundhog. He's a guy squatting down, digging for the ball in the dirt, and sweating under a pile of uncomfortable protective gear while his knees creak.
~ Joe Garagiola
I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street.
~ Rene Magritte
It's really important as a quarterback to have stability in all your joints but especially in the lower body, like the ankles, knees, and hips.
~ Sam Darnold
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
~ David Hume
Dancers, you know, they have pain everywhere: ankles in the morning, or back or neck or ribs or knees or the muscles. You are never free of pain, you know.
~ Sylvie Guillem
Too much school. Would you rather be dead?! Would you rather die? Here, on your knees in the back of a convenience store?!
~ Chuck Palahniuk
my knees were reflections of knees in rippling water
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I don't really like knees.
~ laurent yves saint
It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!
~ Charles Dickens
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
~ Dick Cavett
When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.
~ Bob Dylan
Faith founded schools; it is not dependent on them. A high authority has told us that we are more likely to find faith in an old woman on her knees scrubbing the floors of a public building than in a bishop on his throne.
~ Thornton Wilder
I have a business in North Carolina but am open to coaching or broadcasting as well. I've got four years on my contract and want to play as long as I can with my knees, but I'll let God take care of that.
~ Muggsy Bogues