114 Quotes About Knees


  • Author Rob Hart
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    It wasn’t good to mess around with knees. Knees were stupid. Like a ball and two sticks held together with rubber bands. It took way less torque than most people thought to screw up a knee.

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  • Author George Washington
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    George Washington did NOT say, “I'll die on my feet before I'll live on my knees!” There is no known source of Washington saying this. Zapata, FDR, yes; not Washington. I have a rundown of sources on this on my blog, Millard Fillmore's Bathtub.

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  • Author Diane Ackerman
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    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.

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  • Author Edward Abbey
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    Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

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  • Author Carol Burnett
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    I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.

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