John Nettles quotes

“Domestic violence is often ignored as it usually happens behind closed doors and it can seem easier not to get involved. Yet, domestic violence continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of their background, career, race or age, and it is vital that we do something now to protect those directly affected by abuse in the home.”
-- John Nettles

#Home Quotes #Race Quotes #Doors Quotes

“I suppose I'm not quite the oldest detective on the block - David Jason is. When's he going to retire and give rest of us a chance?! No, his Touch Of Frost is terrific and a wonderful antidote to the po-faced detective shows around at the moment. Anyway, I can't retire. I have a wife and five chickens to feed.”
-- John Nettles

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#Block Quotes #Giving Quotes #Wife Quotes

“On my days off I pick up our chicken's eggs. My wife and I have five chickens called The Spice Girls. Five lovely chicks. And no, we won't be eating any of them for Christmas dinner.”
-- John Nettles

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#Girl Quotes #Eggs Quotes #Wife Quotes

“I don't think anyone takes the deaths in Midsomer as seriously as in say Wire In The Blood or Silent Witness. We're part of the old British 'whodunnit'. We're much more gentle and the deaths are sanitised, in a sense.”
-- John Nettles

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#Thinking Quotes #Blood Quotes #Wire Quotes

“I'm always impressed with the way the writers find new and creative ways of killing people. But my favourite has to be the hat pin through the ear.”
-- John Nettles

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#People Quotes #Creative Quotes #Hats Quotes

“Football is my guilty pleasure.”
-- John Nettles

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#Football Quotes #Guilty Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“My nearest and dearest have always been very careful. I've never had to send Christmas present back yet.”
-- John Nettles

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#Careful Quotes #Christmas Present Quotes

“I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.”
-- John Nettles

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#Father Quotes #Party Quotes #Fall Quotes

“Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.”
-- John Nettles

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#Guitar Quotes #Play Quotes #World Quotes

“I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.”

“Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.”

“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.”

Source : "A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait". Book by Jervis Anderson, epigraph, p. VII, 1972.

“I'm not an expert on the arms race.”

“We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.”

“In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.”

“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.”

Source : As quoted in "Road Signs for Success" y Jim Whitt, (p. 61), 1993.

“The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1710). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed, and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies ; with The Cutter of Coleman-street”, p.179

“It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.”

“Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.”