Top 147 Quotes by Nancy Gibbs

Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.

Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.

The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.

My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.