Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.
In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".
Once you apologize, then the press wants you to get down on your knees and say you're sorry. They are not appeasable.
The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.
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.
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.
Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel,
Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe.
All many be well.
I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer.
Gimme a couple G's for every emcee I knocked to his knees.
Verbally useless, 'Oh you got the juice?' I squeeze you juiceless.
Jesus Christ! I would crawl over the mountains of Beverly Hills on my hands and knees if I could do a movie with Doris Day!
Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.
I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.
All the ranchers I know have had back surgery, operations on their rotator cuffs. They all have new knees. I'd like to think I belong to that breed, but I don't.
Tap was against everything I had learned to do. I was pulled up as a ballet dancer, and I wasn't used to pounding the floor with bent knees.
If I get tickled in a certain way, I actually lose the ability to stand. I don't mean to, but something happens to my knees, and I fall on the ground.
To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking him.
In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.
If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.
You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.
You know, back in my days they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly.
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 special way
It is said that life is too short, and that’s quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.
When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees.
I was teased about Indian food and the colour of my skin and why my knees and elbows were dark.
Will you stand up an fight? he wondered bitterly. Or do you intend to remain on your knees for ever?
I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.
When I got 'Lost,' I was about to not be able to live, so it was a fall-to-the-knees, burst-into-tears, 'I'm saved by this great role' moment.
if they make me watch that movie one more time, I will fall down on my knees and beg for mercy
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.
To feel love is the most incredible feeling in the world. To lose it will nearly end you and take you to your knees, but there's always more.
If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening.
Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.
To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel. On your knees, boy...
If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.
I collapsed to my knees and looked up at the predawn sky. "I hate you," I said softly."I love you," the voice whispered back.
Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.
Sometimes I think life's only mission is to bring us to our knees...the perfect position to seek God.
I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'
I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do. I did not shoot - not a round, nothing. I went down praying to my knees - that's the last thing I remember.
I don't jog anymore 'cuz my knees hurt and stuff like that. I walk a lot and I am really slowing down walking.
As a lad I missed five months of sporting activity to OSD. It used to wake me up at night with pain in my knees.
I take a lot of pride in being flexible, preserving my body. After a workout, I ice both feet, my calves, knees and stretch.
We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008.
I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.
Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.
Anderson knees people in the face from the clinch. That guy is a world class Muay Thai fighter.
The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.
I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.
Over the last 15 years or so, Manchester has undergone huge transformation - from a city in decline and on its knees to one that is growing, vibrant and confident.
Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.
In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie Fall on Your Knees, they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.
Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.
Some reviewed 'The Master' on their knees, and while I respected its distinctive discordancy - can a movie be at once feverish and glacial? - I was unmoved.
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
I’d prefer to see both knees on the ground. I mean, if you’re going to grovel, be the best groveler you can, right?
A lot of basketball players have tendinitis. It's known as jumper's knee, and it just comes from all the pounding our knees take.
'Fall on Your Knees' is really a story about secrets and family, and the idea that there are some stories or truths that need to be expressed.
Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees?
[T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.
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