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Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

Joan Didion

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You get all the comfort and mobility of tights but with added durability on the butt and the knees so you do n’t destroy them within the first mile of scrambling.

Heather Balogh Rochfort

Found on CNN
11 months ago

They were crawling on their knees for about an hour, it was dark down there. They had one cell phone light, and that was it.

Firefighter John Loennecker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I turned and just fell on my knees and I just screamed with the most agonizing cry, i didn’t know [whose drone] it was. Our forces, or the enemy.

Valeria Ponomarova

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What I want to see before I die is a monument representing the Negro, not couchant on his knees like a four-footed animal, but erect on his feet like a man.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It rained like the first four days we were there, and I have these pictures of him wearing my raingear down to his knees, soaking wet, i’m thinking, ‘After this trip, this kid is never going to want to play golf again.’ But it did just the opposite. It got him excited about it.

David Young

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

One, to elevate them in the consciousness of the American people that they're our enemy, and they need to be destroyed, two, to give our law enforcement personnel and our government the tools and the power that is necessary to cut off their finances, to then go after American people who are providing them material support — if you're an American citizen helping a cartel member, then you need to go to jail — and do the things that are necessary to knock their knees out from under them.

Chip Roy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's been a complete nightmare... [ we're ] literally down on our knees as we just can't seem to find the staff.

Mandira Sarkar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So I kind of got down on my hands and knees and I real gently brushed a little bit of sand back and then -- lo and behold, there's an egg, there's one hatching, we watched several of the turtles hatch in front of our eyes.

Pamela Plotkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Several studies have concluded that walking reduces arthritis relate pain. Walking protects the joints of the lower extremity, especially the hips and knees by lubricating them and strengthening the muscles that support these joints.

Tamar Amitay

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

People were coming off the street with blood splatters on white sneakers and skinned knees and skinned elbows, we literally just were balling up napkins and wetting them and handing them to people... it was chaos.

Eric Walsh

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We hear these wonderful stories about people who could retire if they wanted to, but they choose to keep working because that's what they want to do, but we don't hear the stories that balance that, such as people forced to retire at 57 because their life's work was physically demanding, and their back and knees gave out.

Beth Truesdale

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’d end up with a bloody nose, or he’d end up with a bloody nose, or cuts on our knees or something like that.

Mark Davis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Keep moving is the main thing, i think I reiterate three or four times in the book, ‘Do not start going down the stairs sideways.’ It feels good on your knees but it throws the hips out and the back starts to go out, the next thing you know, you’ve fallen down and broken your hip. So even if it hurts a little, go down the stars front-ways.

Van Dyke

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’m on my knees, we [the adoptive families] have all previously hosted these children. We've had home studies. We have hosted these children in our homes for Christmas or summer hosting, and we’ve returned the children when it was time for them to return to Ukraine.

Said Thompson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We should sanction their energy sector down to its knees, and we should open up ours — that, I think, is a great strategic opportunity, the right thing to do for our economy, and I’m going to propose legislation to do it.

Josh Hawley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I can't get the images out of my head of people on their knees blindfolded, knowing what's about to happen to them, i can't imagine in any way supporting that or propping up China.

Nikki Haley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This has brought New York City to its knees.

Jennifer Harrison

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison're keeping him in captivity. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison're stomping all over Novak to stomp all over Serbia and Serbian people, morrison and his like have dared attack Novak to bring Serbia to its knees. Serbia has always shown that he comes from a proud nation. Novak Djokovic holds the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup after defeating Russia's Daniil Medvedev in the men's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. ( AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File) Novak Djokovic SUPPORTERS SHOW UP AT MELBOURNE HOTEL WHERE HE'S BELIEVED TO BE HELD.

Srdjan Djokovic

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So, I got on my knees, and then I heard the first shot.

Brandy Littrell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He said, 'Get on your knees,' so, I got on my knees, and then I heard the first shot.

Brandy Littrell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A lot of guys get high-ankle sprains and tear their knees every year on turf, if it happens on grass, it happens on grass. Grass has the ability to move a little bit more than turf. If you had a poll, the players don’t like playing on turf. It is what it is.

New York

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was taking care of patients in two of our hospitals out here in Seattle during the heat dome and unfortunately this was the first year I can say confidently that I and my patients very clearly experienced the impacts of climate change. I saw paramedics who had burns on their knees from kneeling down to care for patients with heatstroke. And I saw far too many patients die in the ED as a result of their heat exposure this past year.

Jeremy Hess

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’ve seen firsthand the devastation that cancer can have on families, on children, and on all of our loved ones, it can bring you to your knees. It’s physically and emotionally exhausting. It robs you of so many things, including life itself for some of the most unfortunate patients. I never lose sight of that, and that’s why I feel so lucky.

Dick Vitale

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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