S Nelson* Quotes

Just can't wait to get on the road again

My fans are very forgiving. So are my wives and my kids.

I'm a little prejudiced when it comes to horses. I have always loved them.

Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out.

I still probably smoke as much as I ever did!

Every now and then I'll think of something to put back in the show. I just kind of play it off the top of my head. If I do it that way it keeps it kinda fresh.

I think innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody.

There are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like it.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

It was and is always nice to work with the kids.

I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.

Due to Multi-Tenancy our gross margin by over 70%.

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones

I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.

It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.

Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he’s shown his colors, run the people, making laws. Experience, there’s the test.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

I loved it in the unconditional way that children love their first home.

If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent

It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know.

What I took out of them was that character was measured by facing up to difficult situations and that a hero was a man who would not break even under the most trying circumstances.

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"....but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart"Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom

It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.

Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all.

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolu

This document [the Reconstruction and Development Programme] was translated into a simpler manifesto called 'A Better Life for All', which in turn became the ANC's campaign slogan.

It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.

Lead from the front — but don t leave your base behind.

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.

The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.

Never submit we are all equals

If we forget our story we were doomed to repeat it

It's not whether your glass is empty or full, it's what you do with it that really matters.

Why sadness was created?So we could rest from laughing.

Loving you was like jumping into the dark side of a pool, and drowning.

Being with boys is more dangerous for me than killing a cricket or having a bird fly into the house.

I have to go, " I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?

Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.

Every negative...Has a positive side...