The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top...
NANCY GIBBS In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruption...
NANCY GIBBS Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
NANCY GIBBS The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it i...
NANCY GIBBS All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need m...
NANCY GIBBS On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it ...
NANCY GIBBS Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary traini...
NANCY GIBBS Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes ...
NANCY GIBBS I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challengin...
NANCY GIBBS War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,00...
NANCY GIBBS We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile an...
NANCY GIBBS I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smel...
NANCY GIBBS All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot...
NANCY GIBBS The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and ...
NANCY GIBBS Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossin...
NANCY GIBBS Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
NANCY GIBBS Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance...
NANCY GIBBS If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
NANCY GIBBS After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as alm...
NANCY GIBBS If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith...
NANCY GIBBS For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
NANCY GIBBS The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight i...
NANCY GIBBS Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst...
NANCY GIBBS The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3....
NANCY GIBBS High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, ov...
NANCY GIBBS The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest t...
NANCY GIBBS Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded in...
NANCY GIBBS In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running w...
NANCY GIBBS We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller se...
NANCY GIBBS Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son c...
NANCY GIBBS The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a followin...
NANCY GIBBS If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its fait...
NANCY GIBBS It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.
NANCY GIBBS Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very...
NANCY GIBBS In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts...
NANCY GIBBS Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher grou...
NANCY GIBBS Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a chang...
NANCY GIBBS New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea leve...
NANCY GIBBS A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
NANCY GIBBS Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was ta...
NANCY GIBBS Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense...
NANCY GIBBS Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteri...
NANCY GIBBS Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge t...
NANCY GIBBS Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things,...
NANCY GIBBS We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential crimi...
NANCY GIBBS Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to pr...
NANCY GIBBS When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to sp...
NANCY GIBBS Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
NANCY GIBBS Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizza...
NANCY GIBBS Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and...
NANCY GIBBS Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala...
NANCY GIBBS I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and t...
NANCY GIBBS For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
NANCY GIBBS In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit ...
NANCY GIBBS Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid:...
NANCY GIBBS There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation ra...
NANCY GIBBS What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fr...
NANCY GIBBS There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not ...
NANCY GIBBS Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that require...
NANCY GIBBS The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and pol...
NANCY GIBBS As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
NANCY GIBBS In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and ...
NANCY GIBBS Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, ...
NANCY GIBBS I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windo...
NANCY GIBBS Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public acco...
NANCY GIBBS Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search ...
NANCY GIBBS The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.
NANCY GIBBS The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park...
NANCY GIBBS George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father...
NANCY GIBBS While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.
NANCY GIBBS Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
NANCY GIBBS A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable thi...
NANCY GIBBS 'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, ...
NANCY GIBBS It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals...
NANCY GIBBS Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eag...
NANCY GIBBS Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exh...
NANCY GIBBS Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a ro...
NANCY GIBBS It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into ...
NANCY GIBBS The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson...
NANCY GIBBS Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets require...
NANCY GIBBS Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with class...
NANCY GIBBS Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - b...
NANCY GIBBS Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when ...
NANCY GIBBS Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleani...
NANCY GIBBS The wand is mighter then the sword.
NANCY GIBBS In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
NANCY GIBBS A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
NANCY GIBBS As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless ...
NANCY GIBBS Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under...
NANCY GIBBS Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central co...
NANCY GIBBS High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who...
NANCY GIBBS McCain wants to make the GOP move in the direction of his issues, particularly campaign finance refo...
NANCY GIBBS (Billy) Graham went through passages of hypochondria and his closest friends had to assure him that ...
NANCY GIBBS; MICHAEL DUFFY After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.
MARLA GIBBS I'll tell you, I'm loving everything Betty White's doing. She's 90!
MARLA GIBBS The Lord put me on television to do these things I want to do in the community. And He knew I had a ...
MARLA GIBBS The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they d...
MARLA GIBBS When I get on a plane these days, I go first class.
MARLA GIBBS Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, 'Has he lost his min...
MARLA GIBBS Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to...
MARLA GIBBS I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got olde...
MARLA GIBBS Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not...
MARLA GIBBS There's always something we can complain about. We're all one. Things could always be better...
MARLA GIBBS We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can...
MARLA GIBBS You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligatio...
MARLA GIBBS Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it...
MARLA GIBBS Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches ...
MARLA GIBBS I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone...
MARLA GIBBS I mean, if cans can be recycled, why not spirits?
MARLA GIBBS If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupa...
JOE GIBBS You’re only a first year!” Tina cried. “And you’re already getting death threats! Do you hav...
STUART GIBBS I am happy with what I do. I'd love to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves, but they hired some...
ROBERT GIBBS It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
PHILIP GIBBS People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
JOE GIBBS The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.
WILLARD GIBBS As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don&...
MARLA GIBBS I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpos...
MARLA GIBBS In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, ...
PHILIP GIBBS It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on th...
PHILIP GIBBS I coached in Washington - and in Washington, you lose the ballgame, it's a bad Monday, I just wa...
JOE GIBBS Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about...
WOLCOTT GIBBS In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way make...
MARLA GIBBS In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way make...
MARLA GIBBS The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.
WILLARD GIBBS It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
PHILIP GIBBS We'll move on the project within 60 days of getting approval from the county.
BOB GIBBS We plan on having a meeting next week with the appropriate people. The problems with the project sho...
BOB GIBBS Some people had claims where there were no claims.
BOB GIBBS You will be seeing a lot of competition coming your way -- it's inevitable with the demographics.
BOB GIBBS Property rights is a huge issue for me,
BOB GIBBS I think it's going to be a good fit,
BOB GIBBS We want to get everyone at the table, ... The more I dig into this, it's a very complex issue. We wa...
BOB GIBBS (There’s a rumor that World War III almost started when the computer in charge of the North Americ...
STUART GIBBS You can’t keep me here against my will!” he told Nina. “I am one of the most influential men o...
STUART GIBBS Yes, we drink our own urine in space. They left that out of Star Trek too. The
STUART GIBBS I forked some of my enchiladas in my mouth, only to discover they weren't enchiladas. They were live...
STUART GIBBS Usually when people hear my parents are scientists, they assume they're awkward, unathletic nerds wh...
STUART GIBBS Yes, we drink our own urine in space.
STUART GIBBS There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marria...
DAVID GIBBS We'd seen the devastation on TV, but didn't really anticipate the sights we saw. It was shocking. I ...
CAROLYN GIBBS I object to any characterization of our government, in good faith, coming to this court ... seeking ...
DAVID GIBBS I think it was one of the prettiest plays I've ever seen,
JOE GIBBS From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the sm...
PHILIP GIBBS I love coaching my grandkids, but I love working with my two sons. J.D. is the head coach, and I'...
JOE GIBBS I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted t...
JOE GIBBS There are relatively few males doing the mating, and a lot of others looking to get lucky.
JAMES GIBBS The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right p...
JOE GIBBS The Australian dollar has moved up against all other currencies quite sharply. The market has been w...
GREG GIBBS We'd like to see Patrick continue to make the real good plays he's made and eliminate the bad ones, ...
JOE GIBBS The whole trip was surprising. I thought I'd see camels; I thought I'd see guns, but we had to look ...
CHRIS GIBBS My impression is that he's very accurate. I think he's going to be a guy that can really roam with t...
JOE GIBBS There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be par...
DAVID GIBBS My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was ...
JOE GIBBS I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone c...
ROBERT GIBBS He wrote about nothing that didn't carry either his name or his initials-sometimes his pieces were s...
WOLCOTT GIBBS Where it all will end, knows God.
WOLCOTT GIBBS Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
WOLCOTT GIBBS He wasn't exactly hostile to facts, but he was apathetic about them
WOLCOTT GIBBS It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar...
WOLCOTT GIBBS One thing about Patrick is he's a real good student. I think he's smart, and kind of knows when you ...
JOE GIBBS [Coach Joe Gibbs said he believes the Redskins have ample playmakers among the wide receivers, altho...
JOE GIBBS It was just a general feeling I have. I'm looking for someone to really establish themselves as the ...
JOE GIBBS Mark took most of the script and looked good. I'm sure that's the way we'll start.
JOE GIBBS Kids are just louder and participate more in activities. When Duke, our mascot, is out they follow h...
CHRIS GIBBS Carlos is better. His range of motion improved. He pushed it hard yesterday, but we'll just have to ...
JOE GIBBS We wish Bill Musgrave all the best in his new role with the Falcons organization. Although it is unf...
JOE GIBBS Hey, hey, ... No filming after 15 minutes. Get those cameras out of here.
JOE GIBBS We were too passive in the opening quarter, but turned things around in the second quarter. Early on...
ANDY GIBBS She can really do some things because she works hard every day. She also wanted the team to be succe...
ANDY GIBBS I wound up through a wild set of circumstances getting into coaching. I went in and volunteered with...
JOE GIBBS Patrick stepped in there and did a heck of a job. And I don't know if you can say enough about Santa...
JOE GIBBS All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom af...
PHILIP GIBBS Jonathan controls the front seven, gets everyone lined up and takes care of the blitz package. He's ...
DAVID GIBBS I love helping people and I love what I do. This isn't work to me. When my job starts feeling like a...
BENNIE GIBBS Doug basically reiterated the same things that Tubby taught me - discipline and hard work.
BENNIE GIBBS I'm looking forward to getting to know these young men on a personal level. They're young and quick,...
BENNIE GIBBS I think what we are seeing is the detribalizing of Protestantism, in that if you have a large extern...
EDDIE GIBBS We wanted to stop them first and our offense would come easier. I think our defense really started i...
ASHTON GIBBS They surprised us with their intensity. We knew they were intense, but we didn't know they were that...
ASHTON GIBBS The Australian dollar has been dragged down by the New Zealand dollar. Both currencies may well go t...
GREG GIBBS He's not a starter and hasn't started, ... I know he's disappointed in not making more of an impact,...
JOE GIBBS You and I are the players, God's our head coach, and we're all playing the biggest game of a...
JOE GIBBS But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
PHILIP GIBBS Adam Quinn is a paid political operative whose mission is to politically undermine the governor. Thi...
JASON GIBBS I think I was quite clever about it. I could have still carried on fielding against Sri Lanka, but I...
HERSCHELLE GIBBS It was washed down with a bit of Jack Daniels!
HERSCHELLE GIBBS I am extremely disappointed at having to declare myself unavailable for the tour. The questions sent...
HERSCHELLE GIBBS It's disappointing. I was trying to keep my end up as long as I could and at the same time play my n...
HERSCHELLE GIBBS Obviously my first objective will be to ensure a good start for the Cobras, but obviously I also int...
HERSCHELLE GIBBS I don't think it's productive for the parties to snipe back and forth.
DAVID GIBBS It's not hard to understand why business confidence surveys report significant pessimism.
DARREN GIBBS It's a great stadium, great crowd, ... That's what Auburn football is about. But it's unacceptable t...
DAVID GIBBS He throws the ball better than Ball does and runs just as well. Maybe we will have learned from our ...
DAVID GIBBS It's not fair to Brandon Cox and our offense to get in a hole 10-0, ... It's not acceptable and can'...
DAVID GIBBS I've always been on the field. The guys I grew up under always did it. The guys who taught me what I...
DAVID GIBBS He's continued to get better and better and better. Different guys are going to play out there. Whoe...
DAVID GIBBS I watched her mother sobbing over her dying daughter. We walked out into the hallway and Mary said t...
DAVID GIBBS Our fans are more youthful than Leaf fans, more energetic and interactive.
CHRIS GIBBS Hopefully, something starts working out so we can get Patrick some place that he would like. I don't...
JOE GIBBS Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.
JOE GIBBS