Top 323 Nelson Quotes & Sayings

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

The world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us.

Favorite country singer of all time... Hank Williams... Well, then there's Willie Nelson. Can I have three? I can't do one. Then if I have three, I'll need five. Hank Williams for sure. Willie Nelson. Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings.

Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.

I believe that Willy Nelson is the hillbilly Dalai Lama.

Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.

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

Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.

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

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

But while Nelson Mandela's work is sadly done, his dream is unfinished.

Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

Michael Phelps and Willie Nelson are teaming up to do an album. ... They're covering The Doobie Brothers.

I'm not looking to do 'Half Nelson' next, but to play anything that's a little more complex is really fun.

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

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

If I had met Judd Nelson in my late twenties, I would have been pretty enamored!

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

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

When we shot "Cry Freedom," I wasn't even allowed in South Africa. They told me I could come but I wasn't going to leave. I had heavy death threats at that time. So we shot in Zimbabwe. In 1995, I had the privilege and the honor to meet Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela the same day: I had breakfast with Desmond Tutu and lunch with Nelson Mandela. Then I had the good fortune to have Mr. Mandela actually come to my house in California. There's been a tremendous amount of change.

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

Whenever I am asked who I admire most among the leaders I have met, I have no hesitation in naming Nelson Mandela.

Nelson Mandela, Dada Vaswani, Harsh Mander, Shabana Azmi - I admire their humanitarian work. But sadly even Nelson Mandela could not keep corruption out of his cabinet and within a year, I am told, the victims of apartheid turned into perpetrators of corruption on their own people. Greed has no boundaries of colour or country does it?

That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why she bestowed this particular name upon me I have no idea. Perhaps it had something to do with the great British sea captain Lord Nelson, but that would be only a guess.

Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela speaks beautifully. Should Mandela put his hat on backwards and say, 'Yo, homey, this is Nelson. Yo, Winnie, yo, this is def'?

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.

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

Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all

I'm obsessed with Maggie Nelson's work.

There were three people I always wanted to meet: Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, and Nelson Mandela.

Willie Nelson is not just a star or a headliner, he's a legend.

Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

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

I get mistaken for Jesy Nelson from Little Mix all the time.

It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.

I worshiped Judd Nelson in 'The Breakfast Club' growing up. I must've seen that movie 100 times.

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

It's pretty well documented that Coach Nelson has had a big impact on my life.

I am a music freak. My tastes run the gamut from Willie Nelson to Metallica to Miles Davis.

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

I don't think I knew that much about camera placement and working with actors when we did 'Half Nelson.'

I think even though he [Nelson Mandela] was feted and praised as he was, he always was at pains to say, I'm a human being.

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

You never hear a country-western station saying 'We have old school artist Willie Nelson in the house.' They say 'We have the legendary Willie Nelson.'

The only thing that's going to be more epic than Roy Nelson fighting Mark Hunt is Roy Nelson fighting for the belt. Those are two fights that I know fans want to see.

I waited, and I’m sure Elvis did too, for each Ricky Nelson record like we would a Chuck Berry record or a Fats Domino record, to see what was going on. I used to say to some of the guys that Ricky Nelson learned to sing on million selling records.

[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person.

I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.

We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.

It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela.

Audiences won't buy an Ozzie Nelson walking and talking around about Rickie's new bicycle.

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

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

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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

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.

The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.

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

I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.

If I win gold, I will dedicate it to Nelson Mandela. He is a hero in South Africa, and everything I do, I do for him.