Whitney Houston famous quotes

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

#Voice #Gimmicks

I'm an old-fashioned girl. And I love gospel. I like things that lift me up, inspire me.
-- Whitney Houston

#Girl #Inspire #Lift Me Up

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
-- Whitney Houston

#Beauty #Children #Future

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#Home #People #Trying

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

#Inspiring #Fashion #Women

Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.
-- Whitney Houston

#Likes

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

#Mother #Lying #I Hate You

Judge not for your flaws, but for your Triumphs!
-- Whitney Houston

#Judging #Triumph #Flaws

I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.
-- Whitney Houston

#Friendship #Enemy #My Best Friend

I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love
-- Whitney Houston

#Love #Family #Happiness

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#Believe #Long #Shadow

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
-- Whitney Houston

#Believe #Love You #Long

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

#Mean #Facts #Problem

I believe the children are our future
-- Whitney Houston

#Children #Believe #I Believe

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#People #Stuff #Madness

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

#Believe #Succeed #I Believe

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

#Mother #Taught

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

#Cameras #Great Friend #Friend Love

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#People #Done #Want

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#Mother #Loneliness #Singers

I broke my heart for every gain, to taste the sweet I faced the pain.
-- Whitney Houston

#Inspirational #Sweet #Pain

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

#Happiness #Children #Laughter

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#Crazy #Play #People

I've got a good man. He takes care of me. I don't have to be scared of anything because I know he will kick every ass... disrespect him and you've got a problem.
-- Whitney Houston

#Love #Men #Disrespect

Growing around great musicians, you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.
-- Whitney Houston

#Singing #Growing #Musician

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#Mother #Daughter #Children

If I should die this very day, Don't cry...cause on Earth We wasn't meant to stay.
-- Whitney Houston

#Rap #Hip Hop #Earth

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

#Mother #Thinking #Years

I know that I could really kill for my daughter. I know because I'm living for her, so I'm fierce when it comes down to it. And I feel the same about my husband and my family. I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.
-- Whitney Houston

#Daughter #Husband #Fierce

There can be miracles when you believe.
-- Whitney Houston

#Philosophy #Believe #Miracle

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

#Guy #Bunch

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

#Fun

My daughter is my greatest inspiration.
-- Whitney Houston

#Mother #Daughter #Inspiration

Loneliness comes with life.
-- Whitney Houston

#Loneliness

She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.
-- Whitney Houston

#Mom #Daughter #Teacher

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#Home #Night #People

No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.
-- Whitney Houston

#Husband #Work Out #Addiction

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.
-- Whitney Houston

#Mother #House #Church

I'm older, I'm matured... I'm looking forward to the years to come. Good years.
-- Whitney Houston

#Years #Looking Forward #Matured

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.
-- Whitney Houston

#Knights #People #Taught

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

#Saint #Praying #Pray For Me

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

#Mess #Protective

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#Together #Trying #Rooms

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#Emotional #Feels #Wanted

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#People #Nerves #Kind

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#Girl #School #Light

I'd rather be alone than unhappy
-- Whitney Houston

#Unhappy

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

#Wish #Exciting

I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.
-- Whitney Houston

#Mother #Daughter #Priorities

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#Teacher #Children #Teaching

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#Mother #Children #Believe

Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all
-- Whitney Houston

#Love #Life #Love Yourself

Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight. OK? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is whack.
-- Whitney Houston

#Hilarious #Too Much #Cracks

I'm good where I am at this moment.
-- Whitney Houston

#Moments

I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.
-- Whitney Houston

#Self #Want #Persons

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

#Mother #Strong #Surround

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

#Philosophy #Feelings #Doubt

When the night falls, my lonely heart calls.
-- Whitney Houston

#Lonely #Fall #Sadness

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#Girl #Baby #Integrity

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#Perfect #Scary #Trying

What's in your soul is in your soul.
-- Whitney Houston

#Soul #Your Soul

I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.
-- Whitney Houston

#Want #Persons

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#Blessed #Blessing #Mind

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#Mistake #Self #Want

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#Decision #Enemy #Devil

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

#Country #Home #Israel

I'm tired of people taking off their clothes.
-- Whitney Houston

#Tired #Clothes #People

My name is not Susan, so watch what you say. If you still need her, then be on your way.
-- Whitney Houston

#Relationship #Names #Way

If you say my eyes are beautiful, it's because they are looking at you.
-- Whitney Houston

#Romantic #Beautiful #Eye

I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.
-- Whitney Houston

#Ideas #Media #Puppets

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.
-- Whitney Houston

#People #Church #Cry

I believe that children are our future
-- Whitney Houston

#Children #Believe #I Believe