Knees quotes
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"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 man never got a woman back... not by begging on his knees."
"The punt returner got smacked like Nancy Kerrigan's knee on souvenir pipe night."
"I don't really like knees."
"No nation is ever taller than when on its knees."
"Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer"
"I'd rather die standing than live on my knees."
"(...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul."
"Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not."
"The spirit is what guides my life, and I'm humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it's something to be lived."
"When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees."
"I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me."
"What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast to carry the sails, we plant the planks to withstand the gales--the keel, the keelson, and beam and knee--we plant the ship when we plant the tree."
"Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen."
"Askin what happened to the feelin that her and me had, I pray so much about it, need some knee pads."
"Wisdom sits with children round her knees."
"I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?"
"Running is bad for your knees and I like to do things I actually enjoy, like going for a swim."
"Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions."
"I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics."
