#knocked

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#both sides #dangerous #down #get #knocked

They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#always #down #fall #get #got

Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band. ↗

— George Thorogood

#average #band #blues #did #every

Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that. ↗

— Bridget Moynahan

#being pregnant #down #going #got #heartbroken

When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#against #champions #get #got #hours

I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible. ↗

— Gary Numan

#always #been #before #bowie #chased

I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#barn #black #corner #eight #heard

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.' ↗

— Joe Biden

#champ #dad #down #gets #how

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#come #fighter #floor #get #i

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#been #being #down #had #i