Nelson Quotes:

You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are doing it better than you ever could.

- Melissa Febos

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Writing, Maggie, Nelson

Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.

- P. W. Botha

source: Sunday Times, November 5, 2006.

topic: Prison, Dies, Nelson

Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Stills, Nelson

If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

- Willie Nelson

topic: Crazy, Nelson, Ifs

One thing we are sure of is there's no one like Nelson Mandela out there. That's too bad for us.

- Kinky Friedman

source: Source: www.axs.com

topic: Nelson, One Thing

I think the most moving part of my trip [to Africa] so far was seeing 92-year-old Nelson Mandela, and just thinking about his life. This man has lived through a struggle that few nations have known.

- Michelle Obama

topic: Moving, Struggle, Men, Nelson, Moving Parts

Nelson Mandela was one of the most influential people in my life. He was my hero, my friend, and also a companion to me in our fight for the people and for world peace. Let us all continue his legacy with purpose and passion.

- Pele

topic: Hero, Passion, Fighting, Nelson, Purpose And Passion

There were only 3 people that I wanted to meet in life, Nelson Mandela was one of them. What a life, what a journey, what a man. Thank you for passing this way! God bless your resting soul!

- Tyler Perry

topic: Journey, Men, People, Nelson, God Bless You

What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world.

- Idris Elba

source: "Harvey Weinstein and Idris Elba React to Nelson Mandela’s Passing". www.indiewire.com. December 5, 2013.

topic: Eye, Men, Rights, Nelson

I knew that one movie could either kill my career or give birth to it. It's the same thing with Nelson. If you fail at Nelson [movie about nelson Mandela], you don't get to comeback and say, 'Well, I was trying. Let me do it again.' There are no re-takes.

- Terrence Howard

topic: Careers, Giving, Trying, Nelson

Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

- Morgan Freeman

topic: Hero, Men, Honor, Nelson, Unyielding

We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

- Charlie Pierce

source: "Amandla" by Charlie Pierce, www.esquire.com. December 6, 2013.

topic: Self, Honor, Needs, Nelson

It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela.

- Rio Ferdinand

topic: Wicked, Meetings, Nelson

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Blessing, Men, South, Nelson

I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.

- Malala Yousafzai

source: "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". Speech at the United Nations, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

topic: Hate, Gun, Hands, Teresa, Jinnah

I'm inspired by people like Nelson Mandela. Can you imagine - you know how racist America was back then - imagine how racism was in South Africa when he had to stand up and say what he had to say. That's bravery beyond comprehension.

- Nas

topic: America, Racism, People, Nelson

It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop.

- Tig Notaro

topic: Girl, Mother, Country, Nelson, Indigo

Nelson Mandela and myself had a wonderful relationship - he was a special man and will be missed.

- Donald Trump

source: FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Dec 05, 2013

topic: Men, Special, Wonderful, Nelson, Special Man

The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.

- Dan Rather

topic: Michigan, Republican, Headbands, Nelson

I'm passionate about coaching and being able to mentor young men in a lot of different ways. I think it's good to be able to do what you love to do. It's been in me since the beginning. I was telling my college coach what to do and he trusted me. When I got into the NBA, I started having conversations with coaches. Coach Gregg Popp(avich) brought a lot out in me. Coach Don Nelson gave me an incredible opportunity to spend some time with him and he molded me but at the same time allowed me to be myself.

- Avery Johnson

source: "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

topic: College, Men, Thinking, Nelson

Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

- David Cameron

source: "Nelson Mandela: world leaders mourn inspirational figure" by Conal Urquhart, Dan Roberts, Paul Lewis, Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2013.

topic: Hero, Legends, Figures, Nelson

I was terrified, terrified in Songwriter, because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

- Lesley Ann Warren

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Country, New York, Nelson, Country Western

To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.231

topic: Success, Kissing, Errors, Nelson

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.

- Peter Gavin Hall

topic: Pigeons, Theater, Dump, Nelson

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

- Murray Walker

topic: Funny, Racing, Mediocre, Nelson

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

- Lawrence Durrell

topic: Squares, Air, Heroism, Nelson

Gordon Nelson is not only my friend, he's my mentor. He is a master craftsman with unique experience, and an approach to creativity that we can all learn from. For any hairdresser looking for enlightenment, look no further than a man who worked at the original Vidal Sassoon Salon, and who continues to strive for innovation in the industry.

- Nick Arrojo

topic: Creativity, Unique, Men, Unique Experiences, Nelson

History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation

- William J. Clinton

topic: Champion, Dignity, Remember, Nelson

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

- Alan Vega

topic: Space, Guy, Cash, Nelson, Dressing Rooms

Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.

- Hari Kunzru

topic: Beautiful, Book, Grandmother, Nelson

And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

- Kevin Pollak

source: Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 8, 2012.

topic: Team, Doe, Comedy, Nelson

I smacked her, cracked her, put her in a full nelson.

- Redman

source: Song: Soopaman Luva 3, Album: Muddy Waters

topic: Violence, Violence Against Women, Nelson

In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart.

- Kim Gordon

topic: Dream, Book, Heart, Nelson, Wet Dreams

Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.

- Barack Obama

topic: Giving Up, Dark, Years, Nelson, Dark Moments

As president, I watched in wonder as Nelson Mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive his jailers following 26 years of wrongful imprisonment - setting a powerful example of redemption and grace for us all.

- George H. W. Bush

source: "H.W. Bush mistakenly announces death of Nelson Mandela" by Natalie DiBlasio, www.usatoday.com. September 1, 2013.

topic: Powerful, Years, Grace, Jailer, Nelson

As a world leader who refused to accept injustice, Nelson Mandela's courage helped change our entire world

- Salil Shetty

topic: Leader, World, Injustice, Mandela S, Nelson

I've tended to lean more toward the Dalai Lama and people like Russell Means who have been my political and spiritual North Stars, but I certainly regard Nelson Mandela with great respect and humility.

- Ian Astbury

topic: Spiritual, Stars, Humility, Nelson, Dalai

Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him.

- Ian Astbury

topic: Men, Needs, Earth, Nelson

I'm specifically talking about Bill Nelson which merely said to [Barak] Obama stop what you're doing because it's against the law. He's out there saying that today we're gonna start separating families from their children and start sending people home, and it's not happening.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Children, Home, Talking, Nelson, Barak Obama

Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint."

- Kumi Naidoo

source: Source: anniepaul.net

topic: Mean, Trying, Saint, Nelson

Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest."

- Kumi Naidoo

source: Source: anniepaul.net

topic: Nelson

Nelson Mandela also spoke about how, as a human being, he's made mistakes.

- Kumi Naidoo

source: Source: anniepaul.net

topic: Mistake, Made, Spokes, Nelson

Nelson Mandela was just a human being, a person like other people, and everyone relaxed. Within a minute, that sort of thing about the leader and the lead, the gap was closed, and that's a rare thing.

- Kumi Naidoo

source: Source: anniepaul.net

topic: Nelson, Rare Things

I first met Nelson Mandela when I was in my late 20s, in 1993. I was helping facilitate an African National Congress (ANC) workshop to plan its media strategy. I went down to meet him for the first time and you know me I got stupid... I just choked. I said, "Hello Madiba, it's a real honour to meet you," and I couldn't get another word out.

- Kumi Naidoo

source: Source: anniepaul.net

topic: Nelson, Madiba

You'd hear Willie Nelson, then Earth, Wind & Fire, then Chicago, then Billy Joel on the same radio station. Nowadays, everything is compartmentalized.

- Brian McKnight

source: "5 questions for Brian McKnight". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.houstonchronicle.com. August 16, 2016.

topic: Fire, Wind, Chicago, Nelson

The same things that we hurray and support in other places, like people like Nelson Mandela, our prisoners were doing the same thing, and they were captured and convicted of the same things. And we should remember them and treat them like the heroes they are.

- Sekou Odinga

topic: Hero, People, Support, Nelson

Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being elected to public office. In America, we do it the other way around.

- Argus Hamilton

topic: Writing, Years, America, Nelson

The best that can be said for those like Senators Nelson and Landrieu is that they held out until Obama and Reid met their price. By now, I can't even recall what it took to make Joe Lieberman say 'Uncle!' But it just goes to prove that when politicians like these three refer to themselves as moderate Democrats, we should recognize that it's similar to the distinction made in a related field when call girls insist they're not streetwalkers. It's the same profession; only the prices differ.

- Burt Prelutsky

topic: Girl, Uncles, Three, Nelson, Recalls

Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino.

- Henry Garza

topic: Father, Inspiration, Taught Us, Nelson, Fats Domino

The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of this world. These are people who have come to understand that no punishment that anybody could lay on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we lay on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment, by living a divided life, by failing to make that fundamental decision to act and speak on the outside in ways consonant with what we know to be true on the inside.

- Parker J. Palmer

topic: Punishment, People, Decision, Nelson, Consonants

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

- Charley Pride

topic: Texas, Different, Louisiana, Nelson, Watersheds

Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Country, Men, Faces, Mandela S, Nelson

Cause Jesus I do think did exist, and he was, I think, a guy who had interesting ideas in the Gandhi-type area, in the Nelson Mandela-type area, you know, relaxed and groovy; and the Romans thought, Relaxed and groovy?! No, no, no, no, no! So they murdered him. And kids eat chocolate eggs, because of the color of the chocolate, and the color of the... wood on the cross. Well, you tell me! It's got nothing to do with it, has it?

- Eddie Izzard

topic: Jesus, Kids, Thinking, Nelson, Interesting Ideas

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

- Jeff Foxworthy

topic: Redneck, Might, Grades, Six Packs, Fridges