Nick Gordon Quotes

Mothers are the place that we call home. On them we rest our heads and close our eyes. There's no one else who grants the same soft peace, happiness, contentment, sweet release, erasing righttime tears with lullabies, restoring the bright sun that makes us bloom.

Nick Gordon

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• But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Doing

• I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Up
  • Real
  • School

• I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • People
  • Life
  • Wish

• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Small
  • Deep
  • Pride

• Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Fight
  • Girlfriend
  • Told

• Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Makeup
  • Too Much
  • Skin

• I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • God
  • Know

• The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons and daughters to fight in recent wars may derive from a failure to communicate effectively what is at stake in those wars and explain why the efforts are worthy of the risks, resources, and sacrifices necessary to sustain the strategy.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Why
  • May
  • War

• In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Kind

• The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Life
  • High

• Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the Dead.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Happy
  • Words

• When I'm at my grandparents', I know I literally have to do nothing but relax, enjoy myself, and enjoy my family members' company.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Family
  • Relax
  • Grandparents

• HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

  

  Charles Simonyi
  • Time
  • Free

• I always try to make myself be very approachable and easy to talk to, so hopefully people will feel that they can approach me.

  

  Kristanna Loken
  • People

• Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.

  

  Billy Bragg
  • People
  • Work
  • School

• The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the letter forms are not ambiguous.

  

  Bruno Maag

• I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Believe

• For 30 years I've been schooled in everything from government, and economics, to medicine and international relations. But don't be impressed. Someone once said being a general assignment reporter simply means you are equally ignorant about most everything. In other words, I know a little about a lot.

  

  Lester Holt
  • Words

• The key is to become aware of how you are signaling your presence in meetings, conversations, speeches - everywhere you show up. Then you can take charge of them.

  

  Nick Morgan
  • Presence
  • Charge
  • Speeches

• I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Age
  • Dad
  • Die

• I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Small
  • Problem
  • Eye

• I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • People
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• Mothers are the place that we call home. On them we rest our heads and close our eyes. There's no one else who grants the same soft peace, happiness, contentment, sweet release, erasing righttime tears with lullabies, restoring the bright sun that makes us bloom.

  

  Nick Gordon
  • Mother
  • Contentment
  • Release