Top 100 Houston's Quotes

#1. I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.

Thelma Houston

Houston's Quotes #956
#2. I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

Lukas Haas

Houston's Quotes #2733
#3. People have been kind enough to compare me to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. I think it's amazing that they even put my name in the same sentence.

Leona Lewis

Houston's Quotes #17412
#4. What's in your soul is in your soul.

Whitney Houston

Houston's Quotes #34682
#5. A lot crystallized in Phil's mind that day about how people lie. If the facts are not their ally, people have to say something that convinces you, and the best thing they can say is something that's true or irrefutable.

Philip Houston

Houston's Quotes #50788
#6. You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.

Allan Houston

Houston's Quotes #62117
#7. San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

Steve Earle

Houston's Quotes #75866
#8. You think about who needs Dropbox, and it's just about anybody with a pulse.

Drew Houston

Houston's Quotes #88617
#9. Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team.

Bum Phillips

Houston's Quotes #157850
#10. There's an element of fervor and passion that you can't describe when it comes to people who, their faith literally might cost them their life.

Joel Houston

Houston's Quotes #160300
#11. I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.

Diana Lopez

Houston's Quotes #161354
#12. One of the great things about Houston is that they police themselves. It's the way Boston was in the '80s. No hacks or thieves are tolerated in the community, and that's HUGE.

Joe Rogan

Houston's Quotes #182824
#13. He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.

Steve Earle

Houston's Quotes #188060
#14. My favorite song is Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' because my brother used to sing it to me as loud as he could. Annoying then, favorite memory now.

Shelley Hennig

Houston's Quotes #205604
#15. Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!

Brian Houston

Houston's Quotes #211487
#16. If you twisted my arm today, I would probably vote for James Harden, he's single-handedly put that Houston Rockets team in the position they are in today. It would be tough.

Mark Jackson

Houston's Quotes #247598
#17. Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.

Stephen King

Houston's Quotes #258000
#18. 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

Whitney Houston

Houston's Quotes #258210
#19. The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.

Jean Houston

Houston's Quotes #267031
#20. It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.

James Houston

Houston's Quotes #276353
#21. My lady makes me do it. I sang Whitney Houston's "Bodyguard".

Kevin Hart

Houston's Quotes #285679
#22. Bear in Mind ... that all Histories from the Rock at Plymouth, and Jamestown to the present time, have been made by white men, and a man who tells his own story, is always right until the adversary's tale is told.

Sam Houston

Houston's Quotes #290958
#23. You can't focus on what everyone else is doing - it has to be about what's really broken and what you can do to fix it.

Drew Houston

Houston's Quotes #302466
#24. The first thing about Houston is it's an organization run from a different perspective. In Cincy, the team lives off money it earns from football. Houston's owner has other business interests, and he controls the money.

Johnathan Joseph

Houston's Quotes #315482
#25. Around my eighth or ninth year I became interested in the world's religions. I was mathematically retarded but theologically precocious. I began to correspond with seikhs in India. After about the third letter they would ask about job opportunities in America.

Jean Houston

Houston's Quotes #347981
#26. [09:09] MAV: You're sending me into space in a convertible.
[09:24] HOUSTON: There will be Hab canvas covering the holes. It will provide enough aerodynamics in Mars's atmosphere.
[09:38] MAV: So it's a ragtop. Much better.

Andy Weir

Houston's Quotes #350515
#27. I always feel like there are specific things about Houston. There's one museum in particular in Houston. So many of the things that I'm interested in now I can sort of trace back to that museum, which introduced me to them.

Jarvis Cocker

Houston's Quotes #363178
#28. She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.

Whitney Houston

Houston's Quotes #368150
#29. There are a lot of historical lofts in Houston, and it's amazing for me that a lot of them were built in the 1920s. I love the exposed bricks and the very industrial stuff.

Solange Knowles

Houston's Quotes #372859
#30. There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.

Drew Houston

Houston's Quotes #403603
#31. Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.

Whitney Houston

Houston's Quotes #422717
#32. Remember the Alamo" was the battle cry that led Sam Houston's troops to victory at the Battle of San Jacinto six weeks later - and Americans have never forgotten the sacrifices made there.

Bill O'Reilly

Houston's Quotes #444699
#33. I've decided to become a member of the Houston Rockets. I feel it's the best place for me and I am excited about joining the Rockets and I'm looking forward to a great season. I want to thank the fans in Los Angeles and wish them the best.

Dwight Howard

Houston's Quotes #451354
#34. This is a place where you really are what you achieve in Houston, and that's a tremendous boon to this town. I think you'll find people who have succeeded because of that kind of open culture.

Richard Kinder

Houston's Quotes #469126
#35. But that's the thing about East Texas. Red dirt never quite washes out, and pine pollen is tenacious as original sin. You can leave East Texas, for Houston, for the Metroplex, for the Commonwealth, for New York, or Bonn or Tokyo or Kowloon; but you can never quite leave it behind.

Markham Shaw Pyle

Houston's Quotes #495982
#36. I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.

Pam Houston

Houston's Quotes #518879
#37. The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.

Jean Houston

Houston's Quotes #526418
#38. 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

Houston's Quotes #544383
#39. I love to sing, but it's just not fun anymore.

Whitney Houston

Houston's Quotes #585610
#40. There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.

Albert Brooks

Houston's Quotes #596841
#41. It's hard to sleep when you have thirty two million quids worth of stolen jewellery hidden under the mattress.

Peter Houston

Houston's Quotes #605460
#42. I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

Cissy Houston

Houston's Quotes #624106
#43. ... because what I want you to tell me, Mother Roberts - and I mean this very seriously - is why have I been in Houston for eight days without anybody offering me some cocaine?

Hunter S. Thompson

Houston's Quotes #647348
#44. When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.

Drew Houston

Houston's Quotes #649695
#45. 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

Houston's Quotes #650340
#46. Love God. Live Called. It's not just devotional, it's vocational!

Brian Houston

Houston's Quotes #652240
#47. We want the clear facts to be reported that we, according to the FBI, have a lower violent crime rate than Atlanta, or Houston, or Dallas, or Miami or San Antonio. To some extent, the perception that's been created is much greater than the reality.

Marc Morial

Houston's Quotes #665475
#48. Life is short. Everyone's forever planning for the future. No one lives in the moment anymore.

Dick Houston

Houston's Quotes #677107
#49. When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine. But all that initial creation of the early drafts, I'd just as soon write it on the road in any extreme place. That's sort of ideal.

Pam Houston

Houston's Quotes #687593
#50. When Destiny's Child released their first record, I don't think I even noticed. I was still at school, and I had my own life in Houston.

Solange Knowles

Houston's Quotes #689858
#51. I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.

Beyonce Knowles

Houston's Quotes #695902
#52. New York is fast paced, with enthusiastic fans and lots of media attention. Houston's slower paced, and there's more of a southern culture to the city. But both cities have unbelievable food.

Jeremy Lin

Houston's Quotes #710104
#53. 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

Houston's Quotes #716464
#54. 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?

Whitney Houston

Houston's Quotes #742247
#55. The fact that we once knew each other in Fifth Ward, Houston, Texas, and that we were both still alive and ambulatory, was a miracle in itself. Where we came from he's dead was as common a phrase as he's sick or he's saved. People died in our world with appalling regularity.

Walter Mosley

Houston's Quotes #765262
#56. Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.

Melanie Fiona

Houston's Quotes #791692
#57. My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them.

Pam Houston

Houston's Quotes #791758
#58. J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston's newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.

Hannah Storm

Houston's Quotes #796236
#59. Supposedly the term hobo comes from a description of the sketchy characters who were the main inhabitants on the cross streets of HOuston and BOwery. Hey, that's right where I live.

Jim Gaffigan

Houston's Quotes #806142
#60. Dropbox is useful to anyone with a phone. That's, like, two billion people.

Drew Houston

Houston's Quotes #817091
#61. When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

Libby Houston

Houston's Quotes #842943
#62. It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.

Pam Houston

Houston's Quotes #897529
#63. I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years.

Thelma Houston

Houston's Quotes #912733
#64. The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.

Allan Houston

Houston's Quotes #955319
#65. Back above ground, like robotic versions of the mosques and minarets that grace the shores of Istanbul's Bosphorus, Houston's petroscape of domed white tanks and silver fractioning towers spreads along the banks of its Ship Channel.

Alan Weisman

Houston's Quotes #988505
#66. Then a man onstage quoted Sam Houston, saying, "Texas can make it without the United States, BUT THE UNITED STATES CANNOT MAKE IT WITHOUT TEXAS!" and everyone in the entire fucking audience yelled it along with him, and I thought, "Wow. It's really no wonder that the rest of America hates us.

Jenny Lawson

Houston's Quotes #1021153
#67. I was raised on gospel. I remember hip-hop and rock music were secular, so basically, for my first ten years living in Detroit, I was on gospel. But when I moved to Houston, that's when I got to open up my musical horizons.

Lizzo

Houston's Quotes #1030639
#68. Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston. My heartfelt condolences to Whitney's family and to all her millions of fans throughout the world. She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth.

Mariah Carey

Houston's Quotes #1032028
#69. The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier families. You know, it's great to tell kids to pull themselves up by their own boot straps, but you better put boots on them first.

Paul Houston

Houston's Quotes #1046502
#70. What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.

Allan Houston

Houston's Quotes #1053108
#71. The sea, as much as the light, gives this curve of coast it's flavor. The light takes it's color from the sea, sometimes seems to be emerging from it. And the sea here is ever-present. On clear days it coats the air with a transparent tinge of palest blue that salts and sharpens every detail.

James D. Houston

Houston's Quotes #1071988
#72. I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitement, 'We're going places and God knows what'll happen next.' It's very interesting. It's very exciting.

Gail Collins

Houston's Quotes #1082698
#73. I'm guilty as sin, but hopefully I can persuade you otherwise by showing you something that's truthful and that casts me in a halo-like light that will convince you that someone like me could never do what I'm being accused of doing.

Philip Houston

Houston's Quotes #1087332
#74. Neil's voice was calm, confident, most of all clear. "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." It was 4:17:42 P.M. EDT, Sunday, July 20, 1969.

Alan Shepard

Houston's Quotes #1106964
#75. 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

Houston's Quotes #1108402
#76. 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

Houston's Quotes #1154452
#77. 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

Houston's Quotes #1155702
#78. Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments' results. They were raving about how it's driving their research.

Drew Houston

Houston's Quotes #1177693
#79. I'm living three dreams:
Biggie Smalls', Dr. King, Rodney King's.
Cause we can't get along, no resolution?
'Til we drown all these haters ...
Rest in peace to Whitney Houston

Kanye West

Houston's Quotes #1187424
#80. [Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.

Libby Houston

Houston's Quotes #1188855
#81. The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm.

Jean Houston

Houston's Quotes #1209833
#82. There is a known correlation between denial of one's sexuality and a propensity to self-destructive behaviour.

Peter Tatchell

Houston's Quotes #1225332
#83. Shoot, after you've been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there's no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we're pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas.

Gib Lewis

Houston's Quotes #1246558
#84. It will work out, somehow. That's a hell of a duo right there, Marbury, Crawford and Houston.

Carmelo Anthony

Houston's Quotes #1254180
#85. SCRAPPLE Place a pig's head in 4 quarts of cold water and bring slowly to the boil.

Charles Houston Goudiss

Houston's Quotes #1268664
#86. It's people wanting to do something about global climate change. People fed up with the high price of gas. People tired of breathing dirty air. In Houston, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and other cities. It's going to be a critical mass of people experiencing something.

Ed Begley Jr.

Houston's Quotes #1287472
#87. One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

Ted Danson

Houston's Quotes #1296651
#88. First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife.

Allan Houston

Houston's Quotes #1299160
#89. I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.

Whitney Houston

Houston's Quotes #1307790
#90. Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

Sam Houston

Houston's Quotes #1315875
#91. 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

Houston's Quotes #1316152
#92. Why be tempted by one man's seduction, when you can be loved by three?

Houston Havens

Houston's Quotes #1375173
#93. I tried a couple of pop writers - none of the big, big, big ones - but it didn't work for me. I do have a commercial voice; I'm not quirky. I'm very normal and that's probably why I like people like Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston. It's no-nonsense. They sing well, and that's it.

Jessie Ware

Houston's Quotes #1377524
#94. My introduction of Whitney was that if there's going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and lyric phrasing of a Lena Horne with those Gospel fiery roots of an Aretha Franklin, it would be Whitney Houston.

Clive Davis

Houston's Quotes #1405072
#95. It's great, the number of people that I'm reaching through the Internet - I've done some wonderful interviews - but I miss touching the bodies. I miss shaking hands, looking into people's faces and saying, 'Hello, how are you doing? Thank you for playing my music.'

Thelma Houston

Houston's Quotes #1426433
#96. Sometimes I'm writing for magazines on assignment, but the university has to be patient with me. I mean, during the ten-week periods that I have a class, I'm there every Thursday night or whatever it is, but sometimes that's all I'm there, because I'm somewhere else the rest of the time.

Pam Houston

Houston's Quotes #1433049
#97. Anxiety and worry work in opposition to inner peace. When you are worried or anxious about something, even something that must be faced and embraced as a process, you leave little room for God's peace. As

Brian Houston

Houston's Quotes #1443125
#98. I even went to the source of all wisdom, I went and knelt at the great Queen of Drag's feet and asked her how to find love.
She backhanded me in between verses of Whitney Houston and told me if she knew, why in fuck would she be here ?

John Goode

Houston's Quotes #1484104
#99. Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

Drew Houston

Houston's Quotes #1491204
#100. There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do.

Earl Campbell

Houston's Quotes #1527486

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