A Quote by James Russell Lowell

That best academy, a mother's knee.

James Russell Lowell

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Academy Best Knee Mother

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James Russell Lowell
American - Poet
February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891

All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like.

Phyllis Diller

I mean, the best thing for my knee, for anyone's knee, is to never play again and retire. But I'm not going to do that.

Steve Yzerman

Grief is like mending a knee. You can mend the knee and make it function, but the knee never actually heals.

Jason Reynolds

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

Then take me on your knee, mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies danced last night, And the harpers they were nine.

Mary Howitt

The best thing that winning those Academy Awards things are - the best thing of it is that when I say some of my ideas, somebody's going to listen to it, and they'll preface what I say, 'Academy Award winner da-da-da-da-da.'

Haskell Wexler

You could be the best in the world, but it doesn't matter. It's four-ounce gloves. I've been dropped in practice with a knee to the body. I take a good knee to the body and break my ribs in the fight, I lost. I mean, it's a fight.

Justin Gaethje

If people take a knee, and the National Football League players want to take a knee, they should take a knee at night, every night, and thank God in Heaven Donald J. Trump is president of the United States.

Steve Bannon

I'm not Pollyanna - I know that my personality and my opinions and how I approach the teaching of writing maybe isn't exactly how it's done traditionally in the academy...wherever that academy is...but, you know, the academy is broken as it relates to many creative writing programs.

Tod Goldberg

I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else.

Jim Carrey

You hear these yummy mummies talk about being the best possible mother, and they put all their effort into their children. I also want to be the best possible mother, but I know that my job as a mother includes bringing my children up so, actually, they can live without me.