Our Quotes by Nancy Gibbs

9 Our quotes by Nancy Gibbs

Nancy Gibbs’s nine brief statements on "Our" showcase her journalistic clarity and narrative flair. They give a succinct sense of her take on community narratives and shared history.

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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship…

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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think…

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What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start.

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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

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Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his…

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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing…

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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools…

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All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most…

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Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved…

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Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room.…

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The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we…

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Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.

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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write…

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[Former chief executives] come away thinking that America needs a strong, functioning presidency to succeed, and they become very protective of that office. Democrats…

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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly…

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“Lydon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family…

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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.

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For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no…

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

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On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the…

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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.

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If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple…

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“The wand is mighter then the sword.”

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