"It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals."
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"I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees."
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"If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up."
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"I'll be wearing my high heels, even if I'm up to my knees in mud"
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"I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn't have acted that, I couldn't have written that."
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"All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn't prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do."
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"What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We."
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"I play Dwight. That is just much me being of service and worshiping as if I'm on my knees in some temple somewhere or bowing my head in prayer to God in some way. It's really all just the same thing."
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"When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain."
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"(Britney Spears) went in for knee surgery and came out a little top heavy."
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"Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it. A photographer down on his or her knees picturing a dog has found pleasure enough to make many things possible."
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"A man is what he is on his knees before God, and nothing more."
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"I've found my missin' piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I've found my missin' piece!"
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"Get your dirty stinking moron knees off my chest."
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"Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground."
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"If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed."
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"To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner."
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"Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die"
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"All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek..."
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"Now you'll get to see how I can really run a building, darlin. Not even a cracked knee to hold me back, yeah? What a nice birthday present."
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