Top 456 Knocking Quotes & Sayings

A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick

It seems I was born with the gift of knocking people out.

The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?

When the devil comes knocking on your door simply say "Jesus, it's for you.

Your first kiss is destiny knocking.

I wanted to have the no. 1 show on the Discovery channel. I went for it for a very long time, and I was knocking on every door in L.A. that would answer, and sleeping in front of Discovery's office, probably. It wasn't working, so I decided to regroup and take a break from knocking on doors.

I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking!

Let us not grow tired of knocking at God's door. Let us go to the heart of God through Mary, our whole life, every day, knocking at the door of God's heart! Mary prays - prays together with the community of disciples, and teaches us to have full faith in God, in his mercy. This is the power of prayer!

When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.

No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.

When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change.

Trunk steady knocking/ Floating through the sky, Mary Poppins.

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door.

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

It's not that I'm knocking the movie and television work.

And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

I don't necessarily see myself as an activist, running down the street and knocking at every door.

The first time when I was organizing, I went out and started knocking on doors to see if people were registered to vote. I was a door knocker. I didn't even have the confidence that I could register people, so I just was out there door knocking. That was my first experience.

As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him.

As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.

When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.

Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head.

There's a restless feeling knocking on my door today.

When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.

When crazy comes knocking at the door, you gotta slam it shut.

It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to come knocking on your door.

If Manchester United come knocking, you can't turn that down.

The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.

The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.

Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.

In memory of Muhammad Ali I will be knocking out David Haye in one round.

It's just all about opportunities, knocking doors down and see who answers.

Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

I'm a big fan of the Premier League, but you can't say no when a club like Milan come knocking.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.

You cannot hear opportunities knocking if you are busy knocking opportunities.

When people think of me, they think about me knocking catchers down and knocking second basemen down and yelling at pitchers. But when I took the spikes off after the game, I was a nice guy when I went home.

You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

I got into a lot of fights. Then I started knocking people out, and they stopped.

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

I enjoy knocking around with the boys.

I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else.

Knocking someone out cold means you just caught them, that's all.

I'm knocking fools out. I'm beating guys because that's what I was born to do.

The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering.

There's no less serious thing than making TV, knocking about in cars.

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.

I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me I got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. That's when we're going to fight... There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher 'that might not necessarily be true.' That's never happened. There are no scientists picketing out front of churches. There's been this coexistence forever, so to have religious communities knocking down the science door, there's something wrong there.

The most excited you'll ever see me is after knocking a guy out.

Knocking the shrieking goblins aside like skittles

There was a girl knocking on my hotel room door all night! Finally, I let her out.