Nelson Quotes

Nelson Quote of the day

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

What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human. We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.

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

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.

Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.

Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

If you really want to be happy, don't just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value.

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.

Golf took young kids like Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and myself out of the caddie ranks and gave us money and a little bit of fame and let us live in the tall cotton.

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

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

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.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

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

Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has.

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

I believe that Willy Nelson is the hillbilly Dalai Lama.

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

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

A prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson bumper sticker washed ashore on the beach, which meant it was Florida. Then it got weird.

Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate... He could start by spending 27 years in prison.

I'm well aware that the Nelson Mandelas and the Winston Churchills of the world happened by accident. They usually come out of nowhere.

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.

I'd just gotten into Los Angeles from Texas, where I live, and the phone rang and it was the guy calling about the Willie Nelson video. I was totally excited about it.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Leaving golf aside for the moment, I'd choose Roger Federer as a sporting role model, Muhammad Ali for a sporting and non-sporting role model and Nelson Mandela as a true and lasting inspiration.

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

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.

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!

You might be a redneck if you have a picture of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, or Elvis over your fireplace.

A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father.

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

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."

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

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

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

What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.

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

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

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

It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our political prisoners."

I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.

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

Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison.

I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.

It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela.

The world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us.