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I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons. -- Billy Wilder
That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position! -- Henny Youngman
Kneeling on the sea bottom in a place known as Tiger Beach, I watched a 12-foot- long female tiger shark cruise over the turtle grass with three silver bar jacks swimming in front of her nose. -- Brian Skerry
When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck. -- Simon Newcomb
Better die standing than live kneeling. -- Pericles
Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling. -- Ambrose Bierce
I would rather die standing than live kneeling -- Charb
There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over. -- Frank Zappa
Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. -- Dwight L. Moody
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling. -- Douglas William Jerrold
My diplomatic position will not consist of going and kneeling down in front of George Bush. -- Segolene Royal
Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much. -- Walter Savage Landor
A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep. -- C. S. Lewis
The mystery of the Cross, a mystery of love, can only be understood in prayer. Pray and weep, kneeling before the Cross. -- Pope Francis
Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force. -- Auberon Herbert
Without Prayer nothing good is done. God's works are done with our hands joined, and on our knees. Even when we run, we must remain spiritually kneeling before Him. -- Luigi Orione
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all need be a servant. -- James Stephens
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover -- Michael Drayton
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Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear. -- F.B. Meyer
People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox. -- Robert A. Heinlein
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face. -- Etty Hillesum
I have a memory of my mother kneeling in front of a cabinet in our home, tenderly cradling her wedding china. We never used the plates; she died in her 40s without ever letting herself enjoy these gorgeous pieces. I told myself that I would use my precious items. -- Roma Downey
If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism. -- Cynthia Ozick
I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness. -- Khalil Gibran
Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute Hive-Label). If there is only One God then there is no choice, no option, no selection of reality. There is only Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means "submission". The basic posture of Christianity is kneeling. Thy will be done. -- Timothy Leary
What are you doing?" "Kneeling before a goddess." "I'm not a goddess." "You are. A goddess, a princess, a queen. As a soldier, I pledge myself to your service. As a prince, I grant you any boon within my power. As a man, I ask to sit at your feet and worship you. Ask me to do anything for you and I will do it. -- Colleen Houck
I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty. -- Amelia Earhart
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing. -- Barbara Johnson
Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling. -- Oscar Wilde
Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair. -- John Cheever
There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. -- F.B. Meyer
When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green. -- Adam Ant
XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud -- Anne Carson
Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling. -- Oscar Wilde
You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home. -- Andrea Gibson
Father Mapple uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed to be kneeling at the bottom of the sea. -- Herman Melville
Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black officer haha (expletive) cracks me up! Keep kneeling for the anthem! -- Steve Clevenger
And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face. -- J. K. Rowling
The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life. -- Michael Simkins
Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book. -- Markus Zusak
Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them. -- Michael Morpurgo
Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting. -- Hortense Calisher

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