“ It is better to die standing on your feet, than live the rest of your life on your knees. ”
- Emiliano Zapata- Copy
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“ Down on your knees, And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. - As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 5. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ One evening I sat Beauty on my knees — And I found her bitter — And I reviled her. ”
- Arthur Rimbaud- Copy
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“ The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. ”
- William M. Evarts- Copy
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“ They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Stephen Fry- Copy
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“ They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? ”
- Jeanette Winterson- Copy
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“ Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
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“ I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. ”
- Salvador Dali- Copy
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“ A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe. ”
- David Friedman- Copy
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“ You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost. ”
- Francis Ford Coppola- Copy
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“ I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ”
- Bill Watterson- Copy
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“ The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative. ”
- Edward Abbey- Copy
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“ With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor. ”
- Cathy Freeman- Copy
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