Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
You had to wear a hat to go to church. We weren’t allowed to straighten our hair. We couldn’t wear jewellery, nail polish, open backed shoes, skirts above the knee… trousers were forbidden because male apparel on a female was not godly.
I didn’t realize that the platform could be this big until Colin Kaepernick first took a knee. When he did that, that was kind of an ‘aha’ moment for me.
An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong.
I love heels, I’m telling you. When I walk in flats, I get knee pain.
I was never a gym person before ‘Game Of Thrones.’ The idea of it was a bore to me – and it kind of still is – but I had a problem with my knee, so I can’t play sport as much as I’d like to.
Georgia is too cold and wet for me. I have knee problems and hip problems.
I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up or take a knee for your rights – anytime, anywhere, anyplace.
I think the fact people still don’t realise why people are taking a knee and saying ‘Black Lives Matter,’ people are being so close-minded to the fact that no one is disrespecting the flag, nobody is saying all lives don’t matter.
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
You can recover from a concussion in a week. But a knee injury can end your career.
I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, ‘Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.’ And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.
Republicans have come up to me to say, ‘Hey listen. My knee hurts. What do you think I should do?’ I’ll give them my recommendations.
My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It’s arthritic. I have a bad nerve in the back of my eye.
I have a hard time finding high boots that go up to your knee, because of the shape of my calves.
I like a hem below my knee even though I was blessed with fairly good gams.
Back in 2014, I injured my left knee badly.
I was kind of at the turning point in my career with my knee. I was dealing with the struggles of trying to make the transition back on the court consistently and not a game here, then sit a game.
We fought big time fascists when I was knee high to a grasshopper up in Yorkshire, when I grew up I fought fascists in the West Midlands in the form of the National Front.
Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.
It might seem that way, but getting hit with a bare knuckle is not as raw as getting hit with a bare knee, or getting kicked with a shin to your head, which I have been a few times. In that sense, it’s nothing.
I’ve always wanted to live in the ’60s and ’70s and wear wide pants, knee high boots, and oversized denim jackets.
I would try monoskiing, but the problem is my dodgy knee’s on my right side, and my bad ankle’s on my left, so I can’t really use either.
A lot of basketball players have tendinitis. It’s known as jumper’s knee, and it just comes from all the pounding our knees take.
I was waiting for a train at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. My knee was hurting, so I asked a young man for his seat. He replied, ‘There’s one over there’. I said, ‘Please’, and when he refused I poured my water over him.
I proposed to my wife on Brighton Beach, and she said yes. That’s pretty romantic. Even though I forgot to go down on one knee because I was too busy trying to compose the question.
I’ve had two neck surgeries, a back surgery, three knee surgeries, eye surgery, but I keep bouncing back. I won’t go away – kind of like a virus. I don’t go away. I keep coming back stronger and stronger. I’m contagious.
As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making – I don’t like knee jerk decisions – but I’m not afraid to make decisions.
My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.
For riding a snowmobile, you need to have your knee bent. It needs to absorb the impact of riding over bumps, to allow yourself to stand up or sit down, balance side to side.
A lot of people think the wrestling is easy. I have bad knee… almost no walk. Look at the Jerry Lawler with his heart. We still get involve with the sport because we have the pride and the heart. Sometime we get hurt and sometime we don’t.
When athletes take a knee during the National Anthem, we must ignore President Trump’s absurd claim that they’re ‘un-American’ and instead understand that it’s very American to peacefully protest systemic injustice.
Like I always said, Carson Palmer got hit in his knee in 2005 but there was no rule made. Then Tom Brady got hit in his knee and all of a sudden there is a rule and possible suspensions, excessive fines – it’s just getting ridiculous.
Mind you, I’ve always been musical… Mother used to sit me on her knee and I’d whisper, ‘Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,’ and she’d say: ‘Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.’
Look at Willis McGahee. Perfect example. Totally shredded knee. Comes back and gets picked in the first round. It’s pretty hard to have a career-ender, unless I have a neck thing. But either way, I know I’m insured.
The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he’s got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
I’ve landed on my shoulders a lot of times, and separated them and stretched the capsule. I’ve torn my ACL in my right knee; that took me out for an entire season.
In the late ’90s and early 2000s, basketball was more about making your defender look stupid than scoring. Seriously. You could miss every layup, so long as you turned an ankle or buckled a knee.
What does the quarter-back do after handing off? He runs to the perimeter and blocks. Or tries to block. I tried to throw a block at the cornerback but his knee got me right on the temple. I remember thinking, ‘boom.’
I suppose I’m considered a little old fashioned, but I still believe the most flattering skirt length is just skimming the middle of the knee.
Obviously with a knee injury there are certain protocols that need to happen.
Peter threw my coat at me and said we were taking the dog for a walk. He went down on one knee in the downpour and produced this ring! I looked horrible in my wellies with wet hair.
I turned up for my first day training with England Under-19s super excited, and I just happened to bang my knee on the floor, and it just blew up. It turned out that I’d completely snapped it in half.
A knee injury is never something you want, especially at the time that I got it. I was flying at the time.
I like a challenge and I like being able to prove to me and everyone else that I can do crazy things – even with a dodgy knee.
My knee feels good right now. I am definitely able to move about whichever way.
I am always impressed by interviewers who can do the whole thing without notes. I can’t. I need reminders on my knee. Dates, first names, quotes in bold text.
I worked with a skateboarding instructor for three hours every day. We would go to the park and do ramps. I had to wear a ridiculous amount of gear – elbow pads, knee pads, every kind of pad, plus a helmet – to stop myself from getting hurt.
I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn’t bend my knee. I couldn’t straighten it.
When I’m really purring it, I feel as if my whole left side – from knee to hip to shoulder – is turning behind me as I swing through the ball.
It doesn’t seem like it’s been 50 years. I don’t even feel like I’m 50 years old yet, though I’ve had all these knee and back operations.
It’s really fun at night, because I can see the baby kicking. I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and it’s a really incredible feeling. I’m so grateful I get to experience this.
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn’t mean anything – even from people you’re supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.
I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn’t play sport.
The biggest thing I learned is that when Dana says retire, you should retire. Otherwise, you will blow your knee out before your next fight.
My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It’s arthritic.
People didn’t want to accept that I was injured. I played on a bad knee, a really bad knee, for a long time. I actually put team before me and played when I was hurt, but people still would dog me.
Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren’t we all?
Once while sliding under a table, I hurt my knee badly.
I wanted to be a physical therapist because I had torn up my knee and thought it was interesting with the rehab and whatever. I did kinesiology, and after the first four days of class, I dropped out because I was like, ‘This ain’t the class for me!’
