Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes

From time to time, ask yourself these questions: "Am I ready to meet my Maker?" "Am I worthy of all the blessings He has in store for His faithful children?" "Have I received my endowment and sealing ordinances of the temple?" "Have I remained faithful to my covenants?" "Have I qualified for the greatest of all God's blessings-the blessing of eternal life."

Russell M. Nelson

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• I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Kids
  • Band
  • Cool

• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Never
  • Goal

• I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Time
  • Choose
  • Just

• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Being
  • Choice

• I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • World
  • Game

• I'm a child of the Sixties.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Child
  • Sixties

• You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • People
  • School
  • Kids

• I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Students
  • Brown

• Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• We just kept going down the road, we kept trying to make the next record, the right choices to get there.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Trying
  • Road
  • Choices

• If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Experience
  • New York

• I started modeling when I was 16. The odds were against me. At 5' 8, I was shorter than most girls in the business. Still, I gave it a shot, and like with most things in my life, I never gave up.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Business

• I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Respect
  • Singers
  • Even

• I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Important
  • Women
  • Way

• When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Better

• There are a lot of people getting killed by guns in our country for reasons, from my understanding, that are preventable. So many guns that are left loaded, unlocked. So you can educate. That doesn't seem to be too controversial - education.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • People
  • Country
  • Education

• As I see it, tech in Africa 1.0 was the mobile-phone boom, and version 2.0 was about new apps developed in response to local needs. Tech in Africa 3.0 should be about those who are successful in transforming the chatter into real opportunities.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Real

• I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Music
  • Love
  • Rice

• Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Heart
  • Free

• There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Children
  • America

• Silhouettes Shadows are step-children to the sun visited from time to time by the moon.

  

  Till Lindemann Rammstein
  • Children
  • Moon
  • Shadows

• When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms Watts, of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.... There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was "bed-time," which never could come too early!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Children
  • Morning
  • Friday

• From time to time, ask yourself these questions: "Am I ready to meet my Maker?" "Am I worthy of all the blessings He has in store for His faithful children?" "Have I received my endowment and sealing ordinances of the temple?" "Have I remained faithful to my covenants?" "Have I qualified for the greatest of all God's blessings-the blessing of eternal life."

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Children
  • Blessing
  • Faithful