Words matter. These are the best Whitney Houston Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.
I’ve got some good saints out there – that’s right – that pray for me constantly. You’ve gotta have that! You do.
My daughter is my greatest inspiration.
I’ve turned down a lot of arena dates because I’ve done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.
No one makes me do anything I don’t want to do.
I’m just fiercely protective. It’s like, that’s my lair and nobody messes with my lair.
I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.
I’m older, I’m matured… I’m looking forward to the years to come. Good years.
Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.
I’m not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn’t do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don’t have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can’t fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you’ve got to be straight up with you.
I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.
I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I’d be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.
When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That’s what I wanted to do.
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
I’ve always been a thin girl. I’m not going to be fat, ever. Let’s get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?
I have a mother that’s very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.
I’m a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.
Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, ‘Oh, God, what’s this?’ I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.
What’s in your soul is in your soul.
I love to sing, but it’s just not fun anymore.