On My Knees Quotes

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

You can't just tip your hat to Jesus; you must bow your knee.

Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.

I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.

Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.

Christianity is the best way to cure gayness — just get on your knees, take a swig of wine, and accept the body of a man into your mouth.

How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.

I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street.

Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.

I am not afraid of retaliations. I don't have kids. I don't have a wife, no car, no credit. It may seem pompous, but I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

Gimme a couple G's for every emcee I knocked to his knees. Verbally useless, 'Oh you got the juice?' I squeeze you juiceless.

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 try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.

This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have bowed me upon my knees in tears.

I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

A man never got a woman back... not by begging on his knees.

But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?

Lead me to the cross Where Your love poured out Bring me to my knees Lord I lay me down Rid me of myself I belong to You Lead me, lead me to the cross.

We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees

Come from your knees to the sermon, and come from the sermon to your knees

I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.

I'll play until my knees fall off.

The punt returner got smacked like Nancy Kerrigan's knee on souvenir pipe night.

A man is powerful on his knees.

I don't really like knees.

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

No nation is ever taller than when on its knees.

Squats don't hurt your knees; what you are doing hurts your knees.

God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between!

I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak, Or we could do like Uncle L and swing an ep in my Jeep.

For me, it's a great opportunity on a public platform to get on your knees and humble myself and thank the Lord for all the blessings he's put in my life.

The long nights that Pier Giorgio Frassati spent on his knees in front of the Blessed Sacrament had something to do with the long days spent in service of the poor.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our 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.

Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved

I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the knee.

You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together.