(475 quotes found)
“I would rather die standing than live on my knees!”
Emiliano Zapata
“I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet”
Charles Bradlaugh
“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
Dolores Ibarruri (Pasionaria)
“I fall to my knees, shake a rattle at the sky, I'm afraid that I'll be taken, abandoned, and forsaken in her cold coffee eyes.”
Paul Simon
“Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.”
David Jerold
“A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees”
Benjamin Franklin
“I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?”
Sharon Stone
“Litigation should be a last resort, not a knee-jerk reflex.”
Irving S. Shapiro
“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
“If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.”
William Petersen
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