Top 100 Quotes About Gladys: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Gladys

#1. I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.

#2. I realized then that both Gladys and Norm were smiling at about the time I realized that Max and I were acting like lunatics.
"I don't think she's tied up in knots anymore, Gladie," Norm observed.
"She is, dear, just not ones she wants to untie," Gladys remarked.

Kristen Ashley

#3. My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.

R. Kelly

#4. I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.

Beth Ditto

#5. There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.

Peabo Bryson

#6. 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

#7. I would love for people to look at me as a great singer but also know exactly who I am, the way that we have loved and respected people like Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle, having gone through the different stages of their lives with them. That's the type of history I want to have.

Monica

#8. Even before coming into the industry, I was a big fan of Motown, the Jackson 5, Gladys Knight, the Temptations, Diana Ross and The Supremes.

Stephanie Mills

#9. It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, this is good!' You'd always here it at old family parties, like, Gladys Knight and I'd always love it but I didn't really get to know it and respect it until I was a bit older.

Rebecca Ferguson

#10. Of all the soul divas, Gladys Knight was the one for me. Knight's always been about tone and heart, none of the big showboating or extraneous doodling. She nailed a melody and only played a little around the edges like Ma Staple.

Alison Moyet

#11. I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan mail.
... Gladys Gudgeon writes weekly ... I just wish I knew why ... "
He paused, looking faintly puzzled, then beamed again and returned to his signing with renewed vigor. "I suspect it is simply my good looks ...

J.K. Rowling

#12. I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits.

Elton John

#13. None of us ate together: my Aunt Gladys ate at five o'clock, my cousin Susan at five-thirty, me at six, and my uncle at six-thirty. There is nothing to explain this beyond the fact that my aunt is crazy.

Philip Roth

#14. I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China ... I don't know who it was ... it must have been a man ... a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing ... and God looked down ... and saw Gladys Aylward ... and God said, 'Well, she's willing.'

Gladys Aylward

#15. I have mad love for the way we were taught and trained back in the day. I mean, those of us - like Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight - we didn't give into this new wave of celebrity.

Stephanie Mills

#16. Love is terribly sincere and great. I suppose that is why so many people are afraid of it, and so few can live up to it. - Bliss Carman to Gladys Baldwin, 1915 (age 52)

Jeanette Lynes

#17. By the way, all joking aside, do I call you Ghastly or Elder Bespoke?'
'You can call me whatever you like.'
Vex nodded. 'Thank you, Gladys.

Derek Landy

#18. Some of us are born Gladys Knights, and some of us are born Pips.

Rob Sheffield

#19. Gladys.. work has kept you fit
And Bill.. you never moan
Well life's not for carrying cases
With a butler of your own

John Walter Bratton

#20. When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

Ian McKellen

#21. A letter today from a Mrs Gladys Freeman, 45 Sebastopol Terrace, Blackpool. 'Sir, reference the room you had here during the party conference season. Well, we know what it is. We know who done it. But for heaven's sake tell us where it is!

Tony Benn

#22. Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Brenda Holloway

#23. I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.

Patrick Carman

#24. I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

Beatrice Lillie

#25. What are you two talking about?" Gladys asked.
"We're talkin' about roses, chicken chips, and pork rinds," he said.

Carolyn Brown

#26. Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.

Gladys Taber

#27. I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.

Gladys Knight

#28. God is gracious enough to let us know, in due time while we're here and the fact that I'm still around and I'm still singing, it is really to his glory.

Gladys Knight

#29. The tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

Gladys Taber

#30. Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.

Gladys Taber

#31. I'm a people lover. I love interacting with different people as I meet them, and I think people are one of God's greatest creations, I really do. They're interesting and intriguing.

Gladys Knight

#32. When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.

Gladys Knight

#33. The begonia is an amazing plant ... it just keeps going along and blooming, and when cut back, it starts up again.

Gladys Taber

#34. The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

Gladys Taber

#35. Sometimes the best things are right in front of you; it just takes some time to see them.

Gladys Knight

#36. Wicked men have done dirty things to u but never ever think that u are dirty!

Gladys Lawson

#37. Well, I never danced with the 'Pips' - they didn't let me dance!

Gladys Knight

#38. This savoring of life is no small thing. The element of wonder is almost lost today with the onslaught of the media and gadgets of our noisy world. To let a child lose it is to make him blind and deaf to the best of life.

Gladys M. Hunt

#39. Oh God, here's my Bible, Here's my money. Here's me. Use me, God.

Gladys Aylward

#40. Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.

Gladys Taber

#41. February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure.

Gladys Hasty Carroll

#42. The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.

Gladys Taber

#43. If God has called you to China or any other place and you are sure in your own heart, let nothing deter you.Remember, it is God who has called you and it is the same as when He
called Moses or Samuel.

Gladys Aylward

#44. Americans tend to believe they can do anything with or without any training or experience.

Gladys Taber

#45. History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town ...

Gladys Taber

#46. The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.

Gladys Hasty Carroll

#47. I know of nothing to compare with the welcome a dog gives you when you come home.

Gladys Taber

#48. A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action.

Gladys Taber

#49. Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

Gladys Taber

#50. I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like we're supposed to.

Gladys Knight

#51. Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

Gladys Taber

#52. Existence is all about discovery, knowing the unknown.

Gladys Adevey

#53. The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself how it is to cross rivers.

Gladys Aylward

#54. Catching something is merely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety.

Gladys Taber

#55. You could have told me yourself that you found someone else, instead I heard it through the grapevine.

Gladys Knight

#56. Business was bound to come; light industries were already shopping for land. The quiet country farms were already going, and developments would take over ... Eventually, of course, we will have to have some sort of plan to guide future development.

Gladys Taber

#57. One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow

Gladys Bronwyn Stern

#58. Loving somebody is the beginning of everything.

Gladys Hasty Carroll

#59. There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.

Gladys Taber

#60. I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.

Gladys Taber

#61. If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

Gladys Taber

#62. Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.

Gladys Taber

#63. The day you STOP expecting people to have the same compassion as you do,love like you & act like you would in a situation ... Will be the day that will people stop letting you down.

Stuart J. Scesney

#64. Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.

Gladys Taber

#65. A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with.

Gladys Taber

#66. I know that my future will be better than my past 'cos I believe & will act on my belief.

Gladys Lawson

#67. Best of all are the decorations the grandchildren have made ~ fat little stars and rather crooked Santas, shaped out of dough and baked in the oven.

Gladys Taber

#68. Believe me when I say this: you can't please everyone in concert, even though I still want to. Someone always wants you to sing a song that isn't necessarily on your set list.

Gladys Knight

#69. I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

Gladys Mitchell

#70. I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy.

Gladys Taber

#71. April is a promise of what's to come.

Gladys Taber

#72. Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

Gladys Taber

#73. If all I do in my life is soothe someone's spirit with a song , then let me do that and I'm happy.

Gladys Knight

#74. We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.

Gladys Knight

#75. June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.

Gladys Taber

#76. Almost all words do have color, and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her, too.

Gladys Taber

#77. Talent like Michael's is rare. I feel so privileged to have known him and so look forward to honouring his memory in what is going to be the biggest and only tribute to this great showman.

Gladys Knight

#78. Don't let those wicked men win, don't let them destroy you!

Gladys Lawson

#79. Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.

Gladys Taber

#80. Did you ask to have sex with all those men? "Did you ask to be sold as a sex slave?

Gladys Lawson

#81. That is what a book does. It introduces us to people and places we wouldn't ordinarily know. A good book is a magic gateway into a wider world of wonder, beauty, delight, and adventure. Books are experiences that make us grow, that add something to our inner stature.

Gladys M. Hunt

#82. My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.

Gladys Taber

#83. Nothing makes a house cozier than cats.

Gladys Taber

#84. I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

Gladys Knight

#85. I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

Gladys Knight

#86. I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

Gladys Knight

#87. Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

Gladys Knight

#88. Such an error, one finds, to do things for the best. They usually seem to be such unpleasant things.

Gladys Mitchell

#89. What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know?

Gladys Taber

#90. The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

Gladys Taber

#91. Security isn't a thing you get and hold onto. You have to let it go and earn it again, over and over.

Gladys Hasty Carroll

#92. It is Jill's theory that in every life there is one dog.Other dogs may come and go, but there is one grande affaire. I feel that is probably right and yet it worries me, for it might mean that I am a fickle person. For I seem able to love deeply just the dog I am looking at.

Gladys Taber

#93. My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.

Gladys Taber