Top 100 Knowles Quotes

#1. Yes, I will probably be that way. I am sure I will. I think that it shouldn't stop you. I think of course my life is going to change, and I definitely will make sacrifices, but you know, I think I will be able to bring hopefully my little rider with me.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #1971
#2. I grew up here, and it's always been a very diverse community. So for people to come out and say that there's some long-standing anger or there's a history of racial tension is absolutely ridiculous. There's not a black-white divide in Ferguson.

James Knowles III

Knowles Quotes #9203
#3. What makes you so special? Why should you get it and all the rest of us be in the dark?"
The momentum of the argument abruptly broke from his control. His face froze. "Because I've suffered," he burst out.

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #10296
#4. I'm a workaholic and I don't believe in 'no.' If I'm not sleeping, nobody's sleeping.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #11176
#5. I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #11293
#6. Spread positivity; don't matter how big, or how small.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #11436
#7. If I have on a bright red lip, you'll rarely ever catch me with eyeshadow on. It's one or the other for me - pick one feature for the day and really focus on that.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #15650
#8. I love the Backstreet Boys! I think they're very talented and I think their harmony is wonderful.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #15977
#9. The perfume of natures does not usually come forth without bruising.

Sarah Knowles Bolton

Knowles Quotes #19878
#10. There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #22113
#11. I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth. I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this earth. The best thing about having a daughter is having a true legacy. The word love means something completely different now.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #26600
#12. Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.

James Sheridan Knowles

Knowles Quotes #27005
#13. I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective ... it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you've been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #29660
#14. Mainstream media tends to showcase a very specific kind of Mardi Gras, but my experience of Mardi Gras is very different; it's very cultural.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #35855
#15. If you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done, but keep trying.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #36733
#16. Commercialism and the mad desire to make money have blotted out everything else, and as a result we are not living, but merely existing.

Joseph Knowles

Knowles Quotes #47992
#17. Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.

James Sheridan Knowles

Knowles Quotes #54242
#18. Is he using terror to keep away boredom? Does he have to try to destroy something? Even as a last resort, himself?

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #55597
#19. At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.

William Standish Knowles

Knowles Quotes #59946
#20. At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

William Standish Knowles

Knowles Quotes #60963
#21. From my locker I collected my sneakers, jock strap, and gym pants and then turned away, leaving the door ajar for the first time, forlornly open and abandoned, the locker unlocked. This was more final than the moment when the Headmaster handed me my diploma. My schooling was over now.

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #62290
#22. Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework.

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #64933
#23. Reality was a bitch, but it cleaned away the fog so you could see the bullshit.

Erosa Knowles

Knowles Quotes #78958
#24. Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #80595
#25. When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #82967
#26. Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

Knowles Quotes #83431
#27. I am so looking forward to it. I made sure I had a strong foundation before I became pregnant and I think that's the most important thing. There were a lot of things that I wanted to do personally so that when the time came, I really knew who I was and could be the best mother.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #84622
#28. To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I'd be ... it's really, you know, still fascinating for me.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #85740
#29. The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,
which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to which he is sure to call them.

James Sheridan Knowles

Knowles Quotes #90300
#30. You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #98044
#31. People from New Orleans are extremely prideful.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #100210
#32. There's definitely a dangerous feeling when you're in love-it's giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that's the dangerous thing.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #101408
#33. I never imagined I would be in a film with Steve Martin. I was a little star struck, because I grew up watching his movies.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #106038
#34. I'd rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #107178
#35. We all want the same things ... the right to be happy, to be just who WE WANT TO BE.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #126185
#36. Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #127617
#37. What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #129316
#38. I don't flaunt my money. I like to stay at nice hotels but I'm not a flashy chick. I haven't got much jewellery or anything.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #141880
#39. I always have breakfast, say, scrambled egg whites, a vegetable smoothie, or whole-grain cereal with low-fat milk. For lunch and dinner, I eat a lot of fish and vegetables. And throughout the day, I try to stay hydrated.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #146296
#40. Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #154107
#41. I'm not sure if it's cause I'm getting old, but my heels have to be 3.5 inch or less, or a chunky heel.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #154630
#42. He alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate.

Sarah Knowles Bolton

Knowles Quotes #157754
#43. There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #158112
#44. When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #160165
#45. THE HEART IS THAN YOU THINK,LIKE IT COULD GO THOUGH ANYTHING

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #166263
#46. To walk down the aisle and see all my friends and family and to see my handsome man standin' there, and to know that at 61 you can still find love and have a magical day like that ... it was really beautiful,

Tina Knowles

Knowles Quotes #166311
#47. Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #178342
#48. I was diagnosed with ADHD twice. I didn't believe the first doctor who told me, and I had a whole theory that ADHD was just something they invented to make you pay for medicine, but then the second doctor told me I had it.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #183475
#49. I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #186975
#50. A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.

Malcolm Knowles

Knowles Quotes #188586
#51. I have more to offer than music that is automatically dance.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #190240
#52. She saw the shallow lines beaded with blood in her long mirror, and when he told her that she was beautiful, she believed him.

Astrid Knowles

Knowles Quotes #195454
#53. As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #197106
#54. I did not stop to think that one wave is inevitably followed by another even larger and more powerful, when the tide is coming in.

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #198235
#55. The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #211727
#56. He was nodding his head, his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you. You've already shown me and I believe you.

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #215483
#57. And my husband and I have been together for 10 years, so I guess people felt a part of it and it makes me feel really good

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #215645
#58. We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through. This world will know Satan. I am sorry for the end of your sins cause they're going to live in hell. I follow Lucifer. Hail Satan.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #222457
#59. I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #227755
#60. I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #228443
#61. I've always loved Dusty Springfield and Martha Reeves.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #228795
#62. You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #237232
#63. Then was the monument called "Stonehenge," which stands, as all men know, upon the plain of Salisbury to this very day.

Knowles James Knowles

Knowles Quotes #239555
#64. He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he.

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #240582
#65. I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down - we're not going to be the number one group in the world forever - so you have to have something else to fall back on.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #244679
#66. My plan for the online version of 'Famous Monsters' is to become an online 'uncle' to an entire group of people who have never read or heard of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland.' The site will not be written in a scholarly fashion. It will be written in a playful, 'Hey, check this out!' kind of way.

Harry Knowles

Knowles Quotes #247606
#67. I'm a good person and I don't think I'll be left on my own. I don't know when I'll meet a man - I think I'm rushing it. But I am tired of working and not having someone.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #268632
#68. I'm a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #276267
#69. The first person who says anything unpleasant will get a swift kick in the ass.

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #285289
#70. There's plenty of days when I'm like 'Oh God, why? But that's just life. It's every job, not just mine. Every moment is not perfect. But it's definitely more good times than bad. You can't even compare. And when I'm on stage it feels incredible

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #286196
#71. Forget the past and live the present hour.

Sarah Knowles Bolton

Knowles Quotes #287311
#72. It also meant mornings of glory such as this one, in which the snow, white almost to blueness, lay like a soft comforter over the hills, and birches and pines indestructibly held their ground, rigid lines against the snow and sky, very thin and very strong like Vermonters.

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #294751
#73. I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #301406
#74. Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #305310
#75. An essential aspect of maturing is developing the ability to take increasing responsibility for our own lives - to become increasingly self-directed

Malcolm Knowles

Knowles Quotes #309228
#76. ...moved by his own sermon.

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #318315
#77. Sixteen is the key and crucial and natural age for a human being to be, and people of all other ages are ranged in an orderly manner ahead of and behind you as a harmonious setting for the sixteen-year-olds of this world.

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #320863
#78. My sister and I truly are best friends.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #322768
#79. I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #343797
#80. My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #350458
#81. Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #354593
#82. I don't like to gamble, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #358378
#83. We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #364884
#84. I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #365957
#85. Love is something that never goes out of style.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #366843
#86. One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #371346
#87. 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

Knowles Quotes #372859
#88. Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #374893
#89. To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

William Standish Knowles

Knowles Quotes #376405
#90. The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #385448
#91. My parents constantly tried to talk me out of being an artist. They had gone through the whole journey with my sister and just wanted me to have a normal teenage life.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #389296
#92. In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the Devon School came into existence the day i entered it, was vibrantly real while i was a student there, and then blinked out like a candle the day I left

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #390519
#93. Just going through a marriage and a divorce - which I essentially did by 21 - will give you an insane amount of perspective on life.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #404337
#94. I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #407818
#95. For me the motley and the bauble, yea,
Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith,
The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!

Frederic Lawrence Knowles

Knowles Quotes #410190
#96. Imma keep running cause a winner don't quit on themselves

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #413052
#97. I'm making the music I want to make, in my own space, and it's just incredible to be able to continue to do that.

Solange Knowles

Knowles Quotes #416665
#98. At some point, it's very important to me that my daughter is able to experience life and run through the sprinklers and have slumber parties and trust and live and do all the things that any child should be able to do.

Beyonce Knowles

Knowles Quotes #417417
#99. Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #417865
#100. But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.

John Knowles

Knowles Quotes #419312

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