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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse -- Lee Majors
Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse. -- Lee Majors
Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation. -- Douglas Coupland
When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he... -- Emily Dickinson
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
No one can do in the octagon what I can do. That 'Showtime Knee' - I never even practiced that once. -- Anthony Pettis
I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and over again. -- Steven Knight
Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knee Willie, you know they're gonna be there. Sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billy, they'll be coming up for air. -- Bruce Springsteen
What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in their hot baths after jousting? -- H. G. Wells
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Stryker was a company that allowed me, when I had my knee replaced and I got the Stryker GetAroundKnee put in, to get my career back and get my life back. -- Fred Funk
We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about. -- Anna Paquin
I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champmedy. I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee -- Stephen Vincent Benet
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. -- Salvador Dali
My knee feels good right now. I am definitely able to move about whichever way. -- Michael Chang
My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. -- Phyllis Diller
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. -- Hosea Ballou
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. -- Margaret Atwood
The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul. -- Rona Barrett
I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit. -- Terry Fox
My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer. -- Roma Downey
It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking. -- Shawn Johnson
Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick. -- Jeff Dunham
A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again. -- Pam Brown
In the middle of a play, I go crazy and don't realize what I'm doing. I'll snap back to reality and I realize, 'Hey, I just ripped that boy's helmet off,' or, 'I'm over here twisting this guy's knee. -- Brian Bosworth
A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap! -- Niall Horan
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters. -- Jean Giraudoux
Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.' -- Les Dawson
At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us. -- Aimee Mullins
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. -- T. S. Eliot
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic. -- Gerry Adams
Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience. -- Max Stirner
What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives. -- Bernie Sanders
Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake, Ponemah, Brookston in Minnesota, and Manderson, Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community. -- Winona LaDuke
I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place. -- Kobe Bryant
Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill. -- Margaret Chan
I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all the leg exercises. I know they help me, and I'm able to move around and don't have knee problems, and my hip doesn't hurt anymore, but when my trainer tells me I have to do them, I almost feel like my body goes into convulsions. -- Michael Strahan
In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end, but that right in the moment of seeing that knee pain, we're able to explore the teachings of the Buddha. What does it mean to have a painful experience? What does it mean to hate it, and to fear it? -- Sharon Salzberg
After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass. -- Joe Namath
That best academy, a mother's knee. -- James Russell Lowell
Handel, to him I bow the knee. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
That's put a strain on his left-hand knee. -- John Scales
I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty. -- Amelia Earhart
Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst. -- Kathy Mattea
Stories first heard at mothers knee are never wholly forgotten. -- Giovanni Ruffini
Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier. -- Andy Murray
The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps. -- Alexander Vandegrift
The soul started at the knee-cap and ended at the navel. -- Jose Lezama Lima
Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee. -- Aeschylus
I was just fighting dwarves then hit my knee really hard. -- Kristen Stewart
I bend my knee to no man. Unless I choose to. -- Caterina Sforza
Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks. -- William Safire
I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage. -- Zakk Wylde
My knee is almost back to normal. I am back in training. -- Shawn Johnson
He's got a knock on his shin there, just above the knee. -- Frank Stapleton
I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore. -- Annie Dillard
Sandro's holding is face. You can tell from that it's a knee injury. -- Dion Dublin
The punt returner got smacked like Nancy Kerrigan's knee on souvenir pipe night. -- Dennis Miller
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee- pad conservative.... -- Edward Abbey
Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ -- Ezra Taft Benson
Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck. -- Michael Reagan
Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strewberries melts On the vine. -- James Whitcomb Riley
I had to Derrick Rose the knee up before I got the re-up -- Drake
You can't just tip your hat to Jesus; you must bow your knee. -- Adrian Rogers
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett
Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice. -- Sonny Liston
Picture you upon my knee, just tea for two and two for tea. -- Irving Caesar
Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee. -- Thomas Adams
Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone. -- Pope Pius XII
consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless. -- Amy Hempel
The more you walk with God, the harder it is to scrape your knee -- Big K.R.I.T.
Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.... -- Anne Sexton
(Britney Spears) went in for knee surgery and came out a little top heavy. -- Robbie Williams
Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all? -- Vin Scully
All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like. -- Phyllis Diller
I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee. -- Logan Mankins
I love heels, I'm telling you. When I walk in flats, I get knee pain. -- Sofia Vergara
I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee. -- Mark Twain
Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm. -- Stephen Chbosky
Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television. -- Douglas Hurd
It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that. -- John Hawkes
My studio is not arty. It doesn't smell of turpentine, and I'm not knee-high in paper. -- Robert Ingpen
[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society... -- Theophile Gautier
It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals. -- Mark Twain
It is better to die, than dive heart-first, into a pool of love, only knee-high deep. -- Anthony Liccione
The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee. -- Laurie Colwin
We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses. -- Richard Rohr
Wraith held up his hands. "Chill, Gramps. I don't want to sit on your knee or anything. -- Larissa Ione
Eighteen years ago, my left knee I hurt. I've never had a knee injury in the pros. -- Brian Leetch
My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example. -- Ted Danson
Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back. -- Lee Majors
I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse. -- Gabourey Sidibe
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. -- Robert Greene
I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano. -- Victor Borge
On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed. -- Joe Rogan
When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath. -- Fred Durst
I'm probably going to have to work hard on my right knee for the rest of my career -- Michael Vaughan
If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart. -- Toni Braxton
The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play. -- Jeffrey Dean Morgan
I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment. -- Fennel Hudson
Trying to make it from the bottom. His sins Feeling as hard as Vince Carter's knee cartilage is. -- Earl Sweatshirt
How now, my sweet creature of bombast! How long is't ago, Jack, since thou saw'st thien own knee? -- William Shakespeare
Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful. -- Edward Abbey
Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation. -- Jonathan Schell
Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They'll sit on anyone's knee. -- Hanif Kureishi
God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between! -- Jim Elliot
To have a knight planted in your game at K6 is worse than a rusty nail in your knee. -- Efim Bogoljubov
I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking. -- Liza Minnelli
Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive. -- Tamba Hali
I told my doctor I got water on my knee, he gave me a sponge and raised his fee! -- Rodney Dangerfield
I really love over-the-knee boots. I think they're super sexy and they're fun. And they're also very strong and empowering. -- Miranda Kerr
Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction. -- Charles Kennedy
I'm the guy doing calisthenics. I'm doing jumping jacks and deep knee bends. I work out like a British person. -- Ryan Reynolds
I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee. -- Jerome K. Jerome
The winger resembles Mother Brown, running with a high knee-lift and sometimes not progressing far from the spot where he started. -- Simon Geoghegan
You know you can't just run and shoot people in the knee-caps with double barreled shotgun 'cause you're pissed at them. -- Eddie Murphy
In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does. -- Junot Diaz
Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him. -- Timothy Keller
He smiled and bent forward, a hand on each knee, his truculence gleaming through his smile like a stone under water. -- Paula Fox

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