Nelson Quotations

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.

Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence.

If I could ask for any life, I'd like to be the lead singer and guitarist for Willie Nelson & Family. That is to say, Willie.

Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.

All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.

Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

We're trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. That's who we look to for leadership and change, for transformation. We're awaiting the next J.F.K., the next Martin Luther King, the next Gandhi, the next Nelson Mandela.

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was just in awe of this man because of what he'd done.

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

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa.

Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.

We are pleased to retain the excellent technical expertise of Don Foot in a position of responsibility and impact. At this point in the development of our Comstock/Mountain Lion iron project and the ongoing work at the Western Utah copper project, their background and technical expertise will be invaluable to us. Likewise, Dr. Nelson adds a tremendous dimension of knowledge and technical capability to our board of directors.

Less than ten per cent of cancer research funding goes to early detection. Our emphasis is on collaboration across technologies and institutions. We have assembled some of the world's leading researchers, including Dr. Brad Nelson from the BC Cancer Agency, to attack early detection in a new collaborative approach.

Sen. Nelson has been strongly advocating the replacement vehicle be assembled at the Cape because from his view it is the right way to do it.

On an ideological level, Senator Nelson is not in touch with the mainstream of Florida, ... He has voted against tax relief that has been passed by the Republican majority in Congress. He votes to protect the trial lawyers against reform of frivolous lawsuits. We think a Republican challenger is going to do very well if they contrast his record to the Republican positions.

somebody good enough to get the outs in the seventh and eighth innings. We had Gene Nelson and Rick Honeycutt.

Mr. Nelson is certainly cooperating with the authorities. He wants to do whatever he can to help out.

Moving into New England is a reflection of Nelson Mullins' strategy to seek opportunities in the key corporate and technology centers on the East Coast.

Megan Nelson was in a new position (libero) and made some stellar plays on defense.

Nelson was a very special kind of person, with huge courage, leadership and people skills but with huge flaws,

Nelson was a great hero. In the whole span of British history he still stands as one of the greatest. The legend reminds us of the great value of heroic leadership when a nation falls under fire and stress,

Nelson said today he'll do everything possible, including new specific legislation, to block Interior Secretary Gale Norton from carrying out the oil industry's agenda over the wishes of the people of Florida and many other coastal states.

Nelson played harder than we did. We've been playing this way for the past two or three weeks, we've practiced this way and played this way, and if we don't snap out of it we'll be one and gone next Tuesday.

Nelson Mandela was as disappointed as I was.

Nelson Mandela is a hero to all people who value freedom and dignity and justice. President Mandela's principled opposition to tyranny and injustice inspires us today and will inspire our sons and daughters for generations to come.

Nelson is an all-conference player, and when he gets going it's difficult to guard him. He beat us in a variety of ways.

Nelson is a great part of English folklore history, perhaps the best known of Britain's military heroes.

Nelson had a monster game in the second half. He is a good player and was hard to stop tonight.

Nelson does not have the strong persona that Bob Graham had.

Nelson did a great job keeping us off balance. I thought his play was terrific. He's strong ... he can score, he was able to get people the basketball and help them get the kinds of shots they wanted. That's one of the big things that hurt us.

Nelson County played well and stepped up and made plays to win. We had opportunities to force overtime or win it, but it didn't go our way. You have to give all the credit to Nelson County.

Nelson came up with a couple of big three-pointers to get us going. It was a back-and-forth game of runs, and we were fortunate to get ours at the right times.

Nelson brought us to Texas. And now we're going to use cotton seed oil or used cooking oil to produce two million gallons of fuel for this community. Every community will experiment with what works best in their community. Cotton can't be grown in all areas, but the local farmers know what grows best and they can rotate their crops to reduce the need for pesticides.

Nelson and I are talking or being together three and four times a day. Almost every decision has been made in conjunction with the county and Nelson.

Nelson & Associates' will be open for business right away and I'm delighted that NASCAR will be my first client.

Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela.

Nobody wants the pack to separate too much and I'm sure that's what coach Nelson is emphasizing. They've got an opportunity to get a game back.

Nicole played a nice game especially considering the fact that Nelson County had three girls her size to rotate in on her. She played solid though and showed what she can do.

One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and he really enjoyed it. It was a really lovely occasion.

Celebrities like John Wayne and Willie Nelson used to stay here, so we took that idea and ran with it. Our visitors really like staying in rooms with a unique ambience rather than the bland cookie-cutter chain hotel rooms we've all seen before. We replaced just about everything except the walls to give the rooms a whole new look and feel.

I had Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard on my show long before the general public caught up to them, ... I also had Eric Clapton and Cream on the program. They were real loud.

From Nelson county we went to Logan county to see some relatives we had there, and after staying until the middle of October, I returned alone to my home in Missouri.

We thought Will broke his leg, but he has a deep bone bruise. Nelson has horrible shin splints and Luis has a nasty bruise. It's yellow and purple. We've joked around that it looks like some kind of disease, because it's spread over his entire leg.

We are fortunate to have good strikers at this club and Nelson is one of them. We decided to start him and he showed his quality with three goals.

Hathaway, Schrader and Nelson took it to the basket. They also played good defense and really hustled.

I actually think it's what he represents they don't want to see depicted, because in that square one Nelson signifies the birth of the British empire and 100 years of global dominance, ... Nelson Mandela would signify the peaceful transition to a multiracial and multicultural world, and I would be proud to have that in London.

He was a great player. We were doing our outfield drills today and I asked Davey Nelson and Gary Pettis to tell us some Kirby stories. They were telling us about some of the good times they had with him. It was nice.

Katherine has wanted to run for Senate for quite some time. Bill Nelson is vulnerable in our polling, and she seems passionate about this and wants to do it.

It is nice to have that. Donnie Nelson was saying he's usually the villain so he thought this was great.

Jeff Nelson and I have never quite gotten along as long as he's been in the league, ... I just know there has been tension.

I remember when Nelson Mandela made his first visit to Atlanta and came by the center. She made sure that not just the celebrities were able to be in his presence, but she made certain that all staff had a chance to shake hands with and meet him.

Our focus is very much on putting pressure on Senator Nelson and exposing his weakness as a senator and as a leader. That only helps whoever the eventual nominee is.

Robert Wood's penetration was key to the win, especially after Nelson fouled out. He would drive and dish outside. He really created a lot of offense for us. It was a very competitive match. They're a much improved team, with a good coach who's turning that program around.

People like the job Bill Nelson is doing. We're working very hard to return Sen. Nelson to office so he can continue his 30-year record of fighting for Florida.

People like the job Bill Nelson is doing in Washington. He has a 30-year record of common-sense, centrist leadership and Katherine Harris knows that.

Stacey Nelson has done an excellent job and she certainly hasn't pitched like a freshman. Our pitchers really showed some character. They kept us in the battle, which is a really good sign.

Stacey Nelson has definitely stepped up, and she's proven a lot in these past couple games, especially with her big win against Michigan. Stacey Stevens has come out and thrown the ball a lot better and will make a big impression for our team and against our opponent in the SEC.

Nathan and Nelson probably had the two biggest matches of the day. Nathan lost 16-14 to the number-one kid in the state and Nelson lost to the fourth-ranked kid in state, 10-4.

Long before Wesley Snipes decided he didn't need to pay the IRS, Willie Nelson was dodging the tax men.

Little Nelson was tied in a plastic bag with two other dogs and left in front of the animal control center overnight. When they got there one of the dogs in the plastic bag had died.

We've told Mr. Nelson to be careful where he goes, to try not to travel alone.

When the Burmese government tries to blame the victims for the crime, and say that (democracy activist) Aung San Suu Kyi and her party are responsible for their own repression, I can only reply that much the same was once said about Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel, ... The world is not fooled. And we must not be silent.

Wilson Industrial Park is nice for businesses that like to be tucked away and out of view. We've had some companies who really like the visibility and accessibility Nelson County Industrial Park has to the parkway.

Willie Nelson is a legend and someone I've always admired,

We get the sense that this was really a personal decision made by Mr. Nelson and that he was not pushed out by the company.

Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill - on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida.

We had a plan going into the game. We were going to try to eliminate Nelson from scoring. We stepped up and got it done.

We play great defense in the third quarter, go into the fourth quarter and give up two scores, I can't explain it. This game was the worst exhibition of tackling at Nelson that I've seen in a long time.

We knew that Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan did it last summer with great success,

This year was a little disappointing but I had a great career at Wake Forest and wouldn't trade it for anything. I've hired an agent in Matt Nelson from Houston and after graduation I'll be heading to Houston to work-out and get myself in shape.

This shows the broad support that Bill Nelson is receiving across the state of Florida. It's a sign that people like his centrist, common-sense leadership and want to retain him in office.

Toby had been taking tae kwon do lessons from Kevin Nelson in Sioux City. He eventually earned his black belt, which led to his being recruited for a job in Dallas.

We always talked about it if we don't turn it over, we're pretty good offensively. We didn't turn it over, and we scored a lot of points. Nelson was just phenomenal tonight. He got in a groove. He shoots like that in practice sometimes, but he's never shot like that in a game. It was fun to watch.

We're hoping to have Mr. Small help them in any way he can with his years of experience. We want to see new and unique sports and events brought to Nelson County too.

We're talking Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Willie Nelson all of those big acts, big artists from that era.

We had a real patchwork team. Mauro was hurt, so he had to play cautiously. Then Nelson ended up getting hurt.

This was in June, 1866. Frank wrote for me to come to him at once, and although my own wound was still very bad, I started immediately and stayed with him at the house of Mr. Alexander Severe, in Nelson county, until he recovered, which was in September.

You have to go back, man. You have to. It's now in the hands of the black man, as it should have been before Nelson Mandela was put in jail. We'd be so much further along. You're from Chicago, so you know the really good things and the really bad things about Chicago. Johannesburg is a big city, too, and it still has a big city's crime, but less. Less. It's easing off. It's better. If you really know Johannesburg, it's a beautiful place. You have to come check out the change.

We feel very good that the poll continues to show Nelson well under 50 percent,

We're very pleased to have him in our district. He is very excited to hear the news and looks forward to working with us. We have had the opportunity to work with Mr. Nelson before and we know his qualities will work well with our students and our district.

You look around and you see that George Carlin and Willie Nelson are doing as well as ever. ... You can grow old and still be vital.

Those who killed Rosemary Nelson did so because they thought it would destroy the Good Friday agreement, ... (She was) a brave woman who stood up for what she believed in.

Bill Nelson has demonstrated that he is a rubber stamp for the Obama administration and he's out of touch with the solution that we need to implement in order to get America back on the right track.

Ever since Willie Nelson brought rednecks into an alliance with hippies back in the psychedelic '70s, Austin has milked its quirky libertarian spirit for a worldwide bonanza of free publicity.

First off our father was our biggest influence. He showed us all the songs that we needed, that we learned from. He played us every Beatles tune, every Elvis Presley tune Richie Valens,Ronny Millsap, Willie Nelson Anything that you can name ...Everything old, nothing new. Everything was old, about the only thing new I can think of is like, you know, probably like Stevie Ray and Santana and stuff. You know, they're old but they came later.

Of Nelson and the North / Sing the glorious day's renown, / When to battle fierce came forth / All the might of Denmark's crown, / And her arms along the deep proudly shone.

The movie has four-letter words in it. You've got Willie Nelson playing Uncle Jesse, smoking dope? That's not 'Dukes of Hazzard.' It should have been 'Jackass 2,'

Coach Nelson has really done a good job since she arrived. They've been down, but I can remember a few years ago when they were very good. And, they're getting better again now. It's important for both of us. Our girls realize they'll have to play well to beat Tatum.

Young attorneys represent the future of our firm and we believe it's crucial for the well-being of Nelson Mullins and its clients to invest in the next generation.

They don?t appreciate Miss Nelson at all, but they do at the end, believe me.

As Noble continues to expand its resort and lodging portfolio, it becomes increasingly important to further strengthen our management support team. Both Nelson and Susan have demonstrated strong skill sets that will greatly complement and enhance the success of our portfolio across the United States.