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I lived in the U.S. for about five years, after I came back, I cried and I cried... I got on my knees. I kissed the ground. I was home. – Linda Yuen Lambrecht	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When I was out in this community cemetery, I was up to my knees in muck, so finding the purchase for a crane or some other kind of [ machinery ] to get a hold and be able to lift these these heavy weights is going to be a challenge. – Ryan Seidemann	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think we're going to have an American wind up on their knees with an ISIS flag behind them on the video camera, being an American in Afghanistan is a death sentence. Being an Afghan with a U.S. passport is a death sentence. – Michael Pregent	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When our knees touch the ground, the universe prepares for us. – Sipho P Nkosi	added by SIPHO P NKOSI 2 years ago
You know how you’re so nervous your knees shake? That was me, sI was my first big job modeling so I definitely felt the pressure within me… But the morning of the shoot, I woke up around 4 a.m. and I just couldn’t eat. I remember just having a little coffee. I was too nervous to eat… We then took a boat to a small island, which is where they shot ‘Castaway.’ And honestly, once we started, I felt so comfortable, super confident and sexy. We got some good shots out of it. – Steven Ferdman/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This industry, which is cruelly ironic, is on its knees. And we need a seat at the table. We never got one. – Alyssa Tushman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
After 2019, there was this boom of popularity and interest in the sport. And then it got really chopped at the knees because all of a sudden there was no sport, no significant women’s football on TV to really maintain that momentum, obviously that has a very direct and real impact on the players but it also has an impact on an industry that’s still trying to emerge, still trying to grow, still trying to develop. And obviously you need to have the sport visible in order for that growth to happen and that momentum to stay in place. – Sarah Gregorius	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
With the eyes of the nation watching us, we knew that we had to rise up and demonstrate to our friends in Washington, and as I said last night, Mr. President we humbly ask you for a federal solution, please give us federal voting rights act, what we did last night is the equivalent of us crawling on our knees to federal officials to tell( them), the time to act is now -- if not Texas, then when ? – Martinez Fischer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There were pastors that were driven to their knees in prayer over and over again because they didn't know what to do. – Ben Marsh	Found on CNN 2 years ago
You cover a lot more ice from your knees when you’re 6-foot-3 than if you are standing up. – Brian Boucher	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and it doesn't care how tough you are. It will beat you to your knees and keep you permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go take what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that! I'm always gonna love you, no matter what. No matter what happens. You're my son and you're my blood. You're the best thing that's ever happened to me. But until you start believing in yourself, you ain’t gonna have a life. – Sylvester Stallone	added by Multiverse-Goddess 3 years ago
We've seen countries bring this virus to its knees, without vaccination, we have the tools at hand right now to actually bring this virus under control. – Maria Van Kerkhove	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I personably believe that as long as we have the tree of the Christ Child in our living room and a wreath on the door and as long as men can kneel down and pray to God that there’ll be less men on their knees shooting guns in foxholes. Remember it’s the birthday of the Christ Child and not a holiday for the greedy and with this in mind, may I say Merry Christmas to you all and God bless you.” – Red Skelton	added by anonymous 3 years ago
My mouth dropped, then my knees ! i could not believe it ! I opened the email to make sure it wasn't a mistake. I took about 10 minutes to process( it). – Simone Williams '	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Instead of an Iron Cross, he saw a five-pointed White Star, he ran to the tank. The hatch opened. An African American GI looked down at African American. African American got down on African American knees and said the only three words African American knew in English that African American mother had taught him :' God Bless America.'. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I launched. I go head over heels, but I landed on my hands and knees. If you did it 100 times, maybe once you land on your hands and knees, and any other version you land, you're toast. It knocked me out of my shoes. – Amal Clooney	Found on CNN 3 years ago
With the pandemic, with the social unrest, I would say the whole ceiling caved in. And that was my' a ha moment' that this is not OK. I'm not OK with this, when I read that he was begging for his mom, as a mother Hollie Geitner, it just brought me to my knees. – Hollie Geitner	Found on CNN 3 years ago
From today on, we will relentlessly pursue, 24 hours a day, all the criminals who have had us on our knees. – Alejandro Giammattei on Friday	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
So many years of sacrifice, it has cost me so much to make my house and now that I´m retired, I have no way of making it back, i have polio, I cannot stand for a long time, or sit for a long time either as I have osteoporosis in my hips, knees and feet. We are sleeping in a bathroom right now, it´s terrible. – Juan Silva Suazo	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
They're living in literally a pieced-together shack that during the rainy season, it will rain and it will flood their shack. Some of the women even said that the water will go up to their knees when it rains, sometimes for months. – Brett Hagler	Found on CNN 4 years ago
These families are the most vulnerable, and in the lowest income... and they're living on about an average of $ 3 a day, they're living in literally a pieced-together shack that during the rainy season, it will rain and it will flood their shack. Some of the women even said that the water will go up to their knees when it rains, sometimes for months. – Brett Hagler	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I can take a couple of perils from Mother Nature and after that I'm on my knees, we've never had a situation like this. – Dan Younggren	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The disaster that hit Venice is a blow to the heart of our country, it hurts to see the city so damaged, its artistic heritage compromised, its business activities on its knees. – Giuseppe Conte	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Venice is on its knees, the damage will run into hundreds of millions of euros. – Luigi Brugnaro	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

I lived in the U.S. for about five years, after I came back, I cried and I cried... I got on my knees. I kissed the ground. I was home.

– Linda Yuen Lambrecht

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When I was out in this community cemetery, I was up to my knees in muck, so finding the purchase for a crane or some other kind of [ machinery ] to get a hold and be able to lift these these heavy weights is going to be a challenge.

– Ryan Seidemann

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think we're going to have an American wind up on their knees with an ISIS flag behind them on the video camera, being an American in Afghanistan is a death sentence. Being an Afghan with a U.S. passport is a death sentence.

– Michael Pregent

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When our knees touch the ground, the universe prepares for us.

– Sipho P Nkosi

added by SIPHO P NKOSI
2 years ago

You know how you’re so nervous your knees shake? That was me, sI was my first big job modeling so I definitely felt the pressure within me… But the morning of the shoot, I woke up around 4 a.m. and I just couldn’t eat. I remember just having a little coffee. I was too nervous to eat… We then took a boat to a small island, which is where they shot ‘Castaway.’ And honestly, once we started, I felt so comfortable, super confident and sexy. We got some good shots out of it.

– Steven Ferdman/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This industry, which is cruelly ironic, is on its knees. And we need a seat at the table. We never got one.

– Alyssa Tushman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

After 2019, there was this boom of popularity and interest in the sport. And then it got really chopped at the knees because all of a sudden there was no sport, no significant women’s football on TV to really maintain that momentum, obviously that has a very direct and real impact on the players but it also has an impact on an industry that’s still trying to emerge, still trying to grow, still trying to develop. And obviously you need to have the sport visible in order for that growth to happen and that momentum to stay in place.

– Sarah Gregorius

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

With the eyes of the nation watching us, we knew that we had to rise up and demonstrate to our friends in Washington, and as I said last night, Mr. President we humbly ask you for a federal solution, please give us federal voting rights act, what we did last night is the equivalent of us crawling on our knees to federal officials to tell( them), the time to act is now -- if not Texas, then when ?

– Martinez Fischer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There were pastors that were driven to their knees in prayer over and over again because they didn't know what to do.

– Ben Marsh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You cover a lot more ice from your knees when you’re 6-foot-3 than if you are standing up.

– Brian Boucher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and it doesn't care how tough you are. It will beat you to your knees and keep you permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go take what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that! I'm always gonna love you, no matter what. No matter what happens. You're my son and you're my blood. You're the best thing that's ever happened to me. But until you start believing in yourself, you ain’t gonna have a life.

– Sylvester Stallone

added by Multiverse-Goddess
3 years ago

We've seen countries bring this virus to its knees, without vaccination, we have the tools at hand right now to actually bring this virus under control.

– Maria Van Kerkhove

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I personably believe that as long as we have the tree of the Christ Child in our living room and a wreath on the door and as long as men can kneel down and pray to God that there’ll be less men on their knees shooting guns in foxholes. Remember it’s the birthday of the Christ Child and not a holiday for the greedy and with this in mind, may I say Merry Christmas to you all and God bless you.”

– Red Skelton

added by anonymous
3 years ago

My mouth dropped, then my knees ! i could not believe it ! I opened the email to make sure it wasn't a mistake. I took about 10 minutes to process( it).

– Simone Williams '

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Instead of an Iron Cross, he saw a five-pointed White Star, he ran to the tank. The hatch opened. An African American GI looked down at African American. African American got down on African American knees and said the only three words African American knew in English that African American mother had taught him :' God Bless America.'.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I launched. I go head over heels, but I landed on my hands and knees. If you did it 100 times, maybe once you land on your hands and knees, and any other version you land, you're toast. It knocked me out of my shoes.

– Amal Clooney

Found on CNN
3 years ago

With the pandemic, with the social unrest, I would say the whole ceiling caved in. And that was my' a ha moment' that this is not OK. I'm not OK with this, when I read that he was begging for his mom, as a mother Hollie Geitner, it just brought me to my knees.

– Hollie Geitner

Found on CNN
3 years ago

From today on, we will relentlessly pursue, 24 hours a day, all the criminals who have had us on our knees.

– Alejandro Giammattei on Friday

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

So many years of sacrifice, it has cost me so much to make my house and now that I´m retired, I have no way of making it back, i have polio, I cannot stand for a long time, or sit for a long time either as I have osteoporosis in my hips, knees and feet. We are sleeping in a bathroom right now, it´s terrible.

– Juan Silva Suazo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

They're living in literally a pieced-together shack that during the rainy season, it will rain and it will flood their shack. Some of the women even said that the water will go up to their knees when it rains, sometimes for months.

– Brett Hagler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

These families are the most vulnerable, and in the lowest income... and they're living on about an average of $ 3 a day, they're living in literally a pieced-together shack that during the rainy season, it will rain and it will flood their shack. Some of the women even said that the water will go up to their knees when it rains, sometimes for months.

– Brett Hagler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I can take a couple of perils from Mother Nature and after that I'm on my knees, we've never had a situation like this.

– Dan Younggren

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The disaster that hit Venice is a blow to the heart of our country, it hurts to see the city so damaged, its artistic heritage compromised, its business activities on its knees.

– Giuseppe Conte

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Venice is on its knees, the damage will run into hundreds of millions of euros.

– Luigi Brugnaro

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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