Top 100 Darlene Quotes
#1. The dog growled again, long and ferocious. The hair on my neck tingled.
And just when I knew he would attack, a horrible scream split the air, and Darlene passed out and fell over on her side.
Carol Petrie
#2. I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love.
Merry Clayton
#3. I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked.
"Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically.
"She burns.
John Kennedy Toole
#4. I'm just looking for someone," I hedge.
"Aren't we all?" Infinite Darlene vamps ruefully. I think I'm off the hook, but then she adds,
"Is it someone special?"
"It's nothing," I say, crossing my fingers. I pray that it's not nothing.
David Levithan
#5. I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That's what Darlene and the Blossoms taught me to do - to be a studio singer.
Merry Clayton
#6. I think, for a long time, people thought I was a figment of Phil Spector's imagination because they knew The Crystals, they knew The Ronettes, they knew Bob B. Sox and the Blue Jeans, but had never had met Darlene Love.
Darlene Love
#7. Infinite Darlene doesn't have it easy. Being both star quarterback and homecoming queen has its conflicts.
David Levithan
#8. Well, it's my age group, anywhere from, I'd say 30 to 70. The biggest comment I get about the book is how honest it is and that people can relate to my circumstances going across the line. Anybody could learn and deal with this book from reading it.
Darlene Love
#9. Because of the consequences of trying to be heard as a child, many adults are unable to take the risk of telling as adults. The fear of the consequences is almost debilitating. The abusers and controllers know that; they rely on it.
Darlene Ouimet
#10. I realized that my identity was not in my leading but in my relationship with God.
Darlene Zschech
#11. Sometimes taking a first step is the biggest and most important journey of them all.
Darlene Craviotto
#12. The flesh is that voice in your head that tells you, "If it feels good do it." It tells us that we need things when we don't, and if we followed it we'd sleep too late, eat too much, and eventually come to poverty. That's where the heart wants to lead us.
Darlene Schacht
#13. A Kitchen Prayer Thank God for dirty dishes, They have a tale to tell; While others may go hungry We're eating very well. With home, health, and happiness, I shouldn't want to fuss; By the stack of evidence, God's been very good to us! ~ Anonymous ~
Darlene Schacht
#14. Don't always carry your Toy dog. Small dogs have four on the floor and they can use them.
Darlene Arden
#15. I always say that when I was recording with Phil Spector, he would not let me really sing, you know? And even to make me sound younger, he would speed the track up. He still wanted that real nice, little, quiet, sweet little sound.
Darlene Love
#17. Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace.
Darlene Zschech
#18. Our God created us to find fulfillment and joy in doing His work, in serving others, in living with the compassion of Jesus in this world.
Darlene Zschech
#20. A lot of the people who saw me in the 'Lethal Weapon' movies didn't even know I was a singer.
Darlene Love
#21. Domestically challenged? No problem. "Sacrifice" - that's what joyfully serving entails.
Darlene Schacht
#22. I want you to know God, but not because you've made some sort of bargain or deal with Him. You must seek His face because you want to know the Lord and because you want the Lord to be part of your life through all times, not just bad times.
Darlene Franklin
#23. I can't promise you that this will be easy, but I can say that marriage - the way that God intended it to be - is a treasure worth fighting for.
Darlene Schacht
#24. Writing for children is important to me because I want children to develop the same love of books I had as a child.
Darlene Foster
#25. When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the greatest Christmas song he ever heard, and he wanted me to be on his show to sing it.
Darlene Love
#26. It means that I love you and you love me until forever, Mama. Just like Jesus. Right, Mama?" "Yes, sweetheart. Until forever I will love you. Always remember that, Ethan - until forever.
Darlene Shortridge
#27. I am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.
Darlene Love
#28. The Blossoms had gotten so we were working seven days a week, three or four sessions a day, which was literally killing us, physically. With the instruments that the musicians play, they can do that, but not with us using our voices.
Darlene Love
#29. Praise is declaration, a victory cry, proclaiming faith to stand firm in the place God has given you. Praise is a proclamation that the enemy's intent to plunder you will not rock you. Praise declares that you will not be moved by the enemy's attempt to snatch you away.
Darlene Zschech
#30. I worked with Dionne Warwick, did shows with Bette Midler, and then I did the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Springsteen at the Garden. It was all important stuff because you want people to know you can work, you can sing, and you can still look good!
Darlene Love
#31. What does an educated owl say?" He shrugged. "Whom," she said.
Darlene Gardner
#32. I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.
Darlene Cates
#33. In church, they have the music where you jump and you shout, you know, and then you have the quiet music where you're sitting, you're meditating.
Darlene Love
#35. I am new to this page and still learning how it works. This is a lot of fun though getting to meet and see new people.
Darlene Cozart
#36. Worship is more than singing beautiful songs in church on a Sunday. It is more than instruments and music. As a true worshipper, your heart will long to worship Him at all times, in all ways and with all your life.
Darlene Zschech
#38. When mountains fall, I'll stand, By the power of Your hand.
Darlene Zschech
#39. It's really hard to go out knowing that you are going to be the center of attention just about anywhere you go and that it's not going to be in a positive way.
Darlene Cates
#40. 'If I Can Dream' is my all-time favorite Elvis song. It was a big record, but not as big as it could have been. It was one of those records where you'd think it sold 10 billion copies, but it didn't.
Darlene Love
#41. It means a lot to me, the sanctity of marriage.
Darlene Love
#42. People may not realize the damage that they are doing by placing the blame on the victim ~ but that doesn't lessen the damage that they cause by doing it.
Darlene Ouimet
#44. There's nothing better than lifting somebody's spirit with music.
Darlene Love
#45. I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper ... that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.
Darlene Zschech
#46. When people come and see me, I want them to experience joy. I don't do any sad songs in my show. It's to lift the spirit.
Darlene Love
#47. Nobody put the camera on the background singers who were singing. It was on Stevie Wonder. It was on Elton John. It was on whoever was the lead singer out front. We were 20 feet from stardom.
Darlene Love
#49. I've knelt through prayer meetings thinking about everything but prayer, and then I remind myself that I'm supposed to be concentrating on the Lord. I shuffle my position and get official until my thoughts drift off once again. Praise God for His unfailing grace on this cracked vessel.
Darlene Schacht
#50. You will be my first, will definitively be my last, perpetually my everything.
Darlene
#51. I enjoyed every minute of what I was doing with sessions, because The Blossoms, the group that I was singing with, they were the first black background singers. There weren't any.
Darlene Love
#52. I get such joy out of performing for people, and you can tell whether they like you or they don't like you the minute you walk out on the stage. And they don't even have to tell me that they had a good time. I know they had a good time.
Darlene Love
#53. Every step that I've taken was a learning lesson. Even to not think you're so big and so bad you can't fall.
Darlene Love
#54. The Blossoms were actually the first black background singers that did recording sessions in California, but we had to start giving work away. We just couldn't do it all.
Darlene Love
#55. I have the experience and ability to step in on day one in Washington and start working on the challenging problems facing our country.
Darlene Senger
#56. I'm always happy to be a part of history. When you're a part of history, you live forever. 'The T.A.M.I. Show' will live forever because now it's brand new. We did that 40-odd years ago, and people are really starting to see it now. I was a part of history when I recorded that show.
Darlene Love
#57. My pursuit was more in the music thing, so I never went out pursuing movies. It was more just pursuing my singing career because people came to me for singing more than they did for doing movies.
Darlene Love
#58. The more we adhere to the truth, the brighter we shine.
Darlene Schacht
#59. Controllers, abusers, and manipulative people don't question themselves. They don't ask themselves if the problem is them. They always say the problems is someone else.
Darlene Ouimet
#62. When I conform my will, my desires, and my passions for the good of my family I conform myself to the will of God.
Darlene Schacht
#63. You just have to find a lawyer that won't let you sign certain things - and I mean the fine print, because I was gone from Phil Spector and signed with Gamble and Huff in Philadelphia, and Phil bought my record contract back from them.
Darlene Love
#64. Old wives' tales have hurt cats. They're not true! Who are those Old Wives?
Darlene Arden
#68. I love being married. I've been married three times.
Darlene Love
#69. Take care of your dog because a dead dog is NOT a fun companion!
Darlene Arden
#70. If we hope to live in victory, we must keep our eyes off of the world and on the One who perfects us through grace.
Darlene Schacht
#71. With movies, they have a certain person or style that they're looking for. It's not that they don't like you, but maybe you're not the person that's right for their movie. That happens a lot.
Darlene Love
#72. As a Christian, you are not the sum of your past. You are a brand-new person with a brand-new beginning.
Darlene Sala
#73. Every time you open up your heart in obedience to God and worship Him with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul, our beautiful Lord responds with His magnificent presence.
Darlene Zschech
#74. Winston Churchill once said, "If you want to destroy them, distract them." And that's exactly what our adversary does; he distracts us completely from the greater cause, which is to pull together so we might know Christ and make Him known. Second
Darlene Zschech
#75. When you hate people, it not only makes you hate that person, it gives that vibe off for everything around you. I really do believe that.
Darlene Love
#76. I know God loves me. I tell people all the time I'm one of his favorite childs. I had to believe in something bigger than me - bigger than man. I had to believe that God would send somebody across my path to keep my dreams alive.
Darlene Love
#77. With God beside us every moment of the day, we are safe - even when bad things happen, even when God's timing is not our timing. He is our refuge.
Darlene Zschech
#78. You can keep a piece of candy in its wrapper for up to twenty years. After that, it turns into a hideous black goo.
Darlene Lacey
#79. We live in a world that is lost and in a moment of intense darkness. Have we fallen asleep when our Lord and Savior has asked us to stay awake with Him? Are we sleeping in spiritually and letting momentous events and opportunities pass us by? My dear friends, let's wake up and draw close to Jesus.
Darlene Zschech
#80. I learned a long time ago writing does soothe the soul. Our deepest feelings grasp our hands and as fast as you think of it your utmost feelings is in plain view. "A wisp of a thought brought to life.
Darlene Cruz
#81. I never pushed to be a star. I didn't want to. I had my home, my family. Session work let you do the music and leave.
Darlene Love
#82. My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.
Darlene Love
#83. Background singers who are any good have to be great imitators.
Darlene Love
#84. The romance of religion isn't nearly as beautiful as the reality of Christ.
Darlene Zschech
#85. When your humanness is confronted by the magnificence and holiness of God, you are made SO aware of your need for God's grace ... Romans 12:1 teaches us how to live this life of worship and love.
Darlene Zschech
#86. The way I look at scripture, we're given one right and only one--the ability to choose. Anything and everything else we are given is grace.
Darlene Schacht
#88. I will support my party when they are right on an issue, but am not afraid to stand up to party bosses who are not looking out for the best interests of my constituents and our country.
Darlene Senger
#89. People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it.
Darlene Cates
#90. If you listen to most songs, most people will not sing the words of the lead singer. They will sing the hook. The hook is what makes the record sell.
Darlene Love
#91. My background in financial services and my experience as a state representative have given me the ability to identify our country's fiscal problems and find steps to remedy them.
Darlene Senger
#94. I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.
Darlene Cates
#95. I've always wanted to work with Barbra Streisand because she's worked with some of the best background singers in the world who are friends of mine, worked with them in concert or on movie soundtracks, and I always say 'Now, where was I? Where was I when she was hiring people to work with her?'
Darlene Love
#96. I'm forever learning that prayer has everything to do with the Lord and nothing to do with my righteousness. Righteousness is imputed to us by faith. We merely need to seek Him with a pure heart.
Darlene Schacht
#97. WHAT A TIRING WAY TO LIVE, WHEN YOUR SELF-WORTH IS CONSTANTLY RELYING ON THE AFFIRMATION AND APPROVAL OF OTHERS.
Darlene Zschech
#98. Worship is an act of obedience of the heart. It is a response that requires the very core of who you are, to love the Lord for who He is, not just for what He does.
Darlene Zschech
#99. We were never designed to receive glory. We were designed to give glory.
Darlene Zschech
#100. What about those nights when you get so down on yourself because you made a mistake? Have you ever thrown the plan out the window because you didn't meet your own high level of expectation? We're not created to be perfect - we're created to press on!
Darlene Schacht
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