A woman is as young as her knees.
We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.
My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore with so much pain, and at the same time I knew I was alive because it hurt. I was afraid that death would find its way into me through this open knee and I quickly covered my knee with my hands.
Grandma Mazur stood two feet back from my mother. "I gotta get me a pair if those," she said, eyeballing my shorts. "I've still got pretty good legs, you know." She raised her skirt and looked down at her knees. "What do you think? You think I'd look good in them biker things?" Grandma Mazur had knees like doorknobs.
I have to bend my knees now when I pick my son. No more bending from the waist.
I don't really like knees.
I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.
I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.
Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.
He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.
Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way.
Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
Alexia,” she hissed to her friend, “there are knees positively everywhere. What do I do?
Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.
My knees are ticklish.
It kind of sucks being the guy taking the knees at the end, because everyone wants to see some action - no one wants to see you taking knees in the Pro Bowl.
Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.
