Famous quotes containing the words knee and/or kick:
“He has no resolution, he shrinks from pain or labour in any of its shapes. His very attitude bespeaks this: he never straightens his knee joints, he stoops with his fat ill- shapen shoulders, and in walking he does not tread but shovel and slide.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“I had to kick their law into their teeth in order to save them.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)