Nas Quotes

People come up to me and pay their respects by telling me how I was a big part of their childhood. I do not take that for granted, not for one second.

Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.

I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

I live a life of gratitude for the abundance of love that I have and that 'Touched by An Angel' still has an impact that fans are still accessing.

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.

I'm forever in debt to Nickelodeon. It made me who I am today.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

I guess it's nice to know I still resonate in people's minds.

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

I don't need to see the old school to remember it and the teachers there. They changed the way that I've always looked at life and learning.

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

People say that I must get bothered when someone stops me for an autograph or a photo. I'll get bothered when no one asks me. Being asked means people haven't forgotten the time I played.

I can't believe how fast things have happened, and I'm just so honored that people are able to look to me as a leader.

That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.

I think you save things from your past that you don't quite understand, and you put them in a box, and you save them for later until you can unwrap them and try to understand what they meant.

It's nice to be remembered.

I hear a lot of, 'I'm a writer because of you.' It's not a bad feeling, but it sneaks up on you. You don't ask for it.

Unfortunately for me, I was one of these people who took a long time to learn that the material at his feet was fine.

When I started soul-searching, I tapped into the old me and what I grew up around. I learned a lot about myself, and it really made me appreciate my upbringing.

People have come up and told me they were WCW fans from the early '90s, or they were watching my work in FCW when I first started in the late '80s, and they'll spit out a match of mine that they still remember. I stand there in awe, shocked that someone still remembers.

It really takes something for someone to get up the nerve to share the impact you have had on them, and to them, giving you that recognition is liking giving a gift.

When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there... whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.