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Knees Quotes

Prayer, defiance, and cramped airplane seats.

One line has Satan trembling at the sight of even the frailest saint down on their knees; another refuses to kneel before intellectual giants like the Kants and Hugos of the world.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

Quotes by William Cowper

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Quotes by Ross Perot

Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

Quotes by Michael Douglas

A woman is as young as her knees.

Quotes by Mary Quant

Act Quotes

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

Quotes by Marie Windsor

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

Quotes by Malcolm Boyd

I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.

Quotes by Lech Walesa

Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?

Quotes by Jose Clemente Orozco

When I fly overseas, I usually fly business class. If not, my knees are going to be at my chin.

Quotes by John Isner

Affects Quotes

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.

Quotes by James Lind

When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.

Quotes by Eric Dickerson

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

Quotes by Douglas William Jerrold

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

Quotes by Charles Bent

I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.

Quotes by Ben Hogan

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Frequently Asked Questions

What contexts do these knees quotes cover?
Religious devotion, philosophical defiance, a cancer survivor's resilience, and the very literal discomfort of cramped airplane seating, knees show up here in both figurative and physical senses.
Why do people search for quotes about knees?
The phrase 'on your knees' carries strong figurative weight around humility, prayer, or submission, so people search for these quotes to express either devotion or resistance to that posture.
One quote says cancer 'brought me to my feet' instead of to the knees, what's the significance of that phrasing?
It deliberately inverts the usual idiom of being 'brought to your knees' by hardship, turning a moment of illness into one of defiant standing rather than defeat.
Are any of these quotes literal rather than figurative?
Yes, one simply complains about knees hitting the chin in economy seating on long flights, a purely physical use of the word with no symbolic weight at all.
What's the range of tone across this collection?
It swings from reverent, as with the saint trembling before Satan, to defiant, as with the cancer line, to mildly annoyed about legroom in Business class, knees turn out to be a surprisingly versatile image.

Cancer, one survivor says, 'brought me to my feet' rather than my knees, a defiant twist that outshines the complaint about knees hitting the chin in Business class.