Kneel For Something Quotes

#1. The quest for the Holy Grail is the quest to kneel before the bones of Mary Magdalene. A journey to pray at the feet of the outcast one.

Dan Brown

#2. Dismount and kneel before me, that I may strike off your head with fullest ease. You shall die in this tragic golden light of sunset.

Jack Vance

#3. Church wants you on your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand. If you go for that sort of thing, I don't know what to do for you. A man makes his own way. No one gives it to you. You have to take it. 'Non serviam'.

Frank Costello

#4. No man will be present in those mysteries,
yet all men will kneel,
no man will be potent,
important,
yet all men will feel
what it is to be a woman.

Hilda Doolittle

#5. skate across the icy sea of oilcloth between me and the bookcase. I kneel up in bed and put on Rob's coat. Its thick, stiff wool is becoming supple again from the heat of my body night after night. I put the sleeve to my face and

Helen Dunmore

#6. The sun will shine on those who stand, before it shines on those who kneel under them.

Chinua Achebe

#7. In violent times folk like to kneel to violent men. In peaceful times they remember they're happier standing.

Joe Abercrombie

#8. Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.

Neal A. Maxwell

#9. He wanted her to kneel at his feet. He wanted to carry her on his shoulders. His girl. His property.

April Vine

#10. Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.

Camille Paglia

#11. I'd rather stand and face the wrath of a God than kneel and live in the shadow of myself

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#12. I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.

Oliver Cromwell

#13. When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

Olympia Dukakis

#14. The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.

Frank Zappa

#15. I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace.

William Shakespeare

#16. A hungry man can be a fast learner. When you come to a table with nothing but need, you are grateful for things you might have pushed aside before. And when you kneel, hungry & broken at His table, you receive a grace from Him you might, at some other time, have completely missed.

Mike Yankoski

#17. I've felt the hate rise up in me ...
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves ...
I wander out where you can't see ...
Inside my shell I wait and bleed ...

Slipknot

#18. I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative!

Hilaire Belloc

#19. The taste
of rain
-- Why kneel?

Jack Kerouac

#20. What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.

William Shakespeare

#21. I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled and so did my tearful eyes.
Time, they say, flies, but I saw it slowly passing by taking each of my tardy breaths with it as it walked out of my life ...

Sanhita Baruah

#22. What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.

Anais Nin

#23. And, if she did, I wondered if she could see in my eyes that it had been good, so good for me; it was making me want to kneel at her feet right now.

Christina Lauren

#24. Ignorance fears all things, falling, terror-stricken before the passing wind. Superstition stands as the monument to ignorance, and before it kneel all who realize their own weakness who see in all things the strength they do not possess

Manly P. Hall

#25. When a politician spends a million on himself, we rally and call him a thief. But when a cardinal spends the same amount on his attire, we kneel down and kiss his hand.

Justin Villanueva

#26. To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#27. Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#28. Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived ... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#29. Be a Catholic: When you kneel before an altar, do it in such a way that others may be able to recognize that you know before whom you kneel.

Maximilian Kolbe

#30. Go with the knowledge that I will think of you every time I lift your boy from his bed, every time I kneel for my prayers, every time I order my horse, every hour of every day.

Philippa Gregory