Whitney Houston Quotes

When you're feeling full of doubt and fear has got you in a bind, love will save the day.

I'm the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something's going down, I won't eat. Some people eat, I don't eat. And it shows in my physical frame.

I love to sing, but it's just not fun anymore.

Sometimes you do have a good time. But when it gets to the point where you're sitting in your home and you're just trying to cover what you don't want people to know. It's painful. And then you want more just so that you don't let anybody see you cry. Or anybody to see we're not happy.

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.

I believe that children are our future

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

Loneliness comes with life.

I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.

You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.

I believe the children are our future

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.

I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.

No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.

BSB are a great bunch of guys, I really like them

I've never felt like this in any other country. I feel at home, I feel wonderful

Sometimes you'll laugh. Sometimes you'll cry. Life never tells us, the when's or why's. When you've got friends, to wish you well. You'll find your point when. You will exhale.

Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.

My mother sang with me in her stomach; I sang with Bobbi Kris in my stomach. I believe the child starts to develop within, and whatever you read, whatever you think, whatever you do affects the child.

To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The human emotion is a very delicate thing, so you have to be careful about how you present it because it can be kind of scary, or too overwhelming if you're not careful. So I try to just keep it love.

You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.

If I fail, if I succeed, at least I live as I believe.

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'd rather be alone than unhappy

I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying.

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.

I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.

I feel so blessed to just have done what I had done. To be able to just use what God has given me is a blessing. You know, never mind the Grammys, never mind the records, never mind all of that. Just to be able to sing.

When the night falls, my lonely heart calls.

I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows. If I fail, if I succeed...At least I live as I believe. No matter what they take from me, They can't take away my dignity. Because the greatest love of all is happening to me. I found the greatest love of all inside of me. The greatest love of all is easy to achieve. Learning to LOVE YOURSELf...It is the GREATEST love of all

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

Never let your heart take precedence over reason, otherwise you will have problems.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

I'm good where I am at this moment.

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?

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'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.

She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

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'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.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

My mother taught me beauty really lives in places like a smile.

I have a mother that's very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.