Near Quotes

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail.

The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood.

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

I think that in the near term the only threat to demand is some form of recession here in the United States.