
Top 100 Quotes About Houston
#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
#2. Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.
Allan Houston
#3. 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
#4. I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.
Justin Cronin
#5. Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.
Nolan Ryan
#6. The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.
Brian Houston
#7. The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that.
Brian Houston
#9. Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education.
Diana Lopez
#10. When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
Ron White
#11. 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
#12. I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just what ... man, I ended up with pockets full of dust.
Ryan Adams
#13. I really like Thanksgiving turkey ... it does not take only time in Houston that you look at natural breasts.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#14. When we allow our fears and insecurities to blind us momentarily, we're often tempted to make the gate narrower than God does.
Brian Houston
#15. The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.
David F. Houston
#16. I began to rationalize marrying Will[iam Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse.' (As it turned out, I couldn't, but I didn't know that yet
Maureen O'Hara
#18. Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio
David Foster
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.
Brad Lidge
#25. Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
Neil Armstrong
#26. You think about who needs Dropbox, and it's just about anybody with a pulse.
Drew Houston
#27. Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.
Pam Houston
#28. Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.
Ariana Grande
#29. Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a ... crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks ... and it required ... flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area.
Neil Armstrong
#30. born in Newark... educated in Trenton... enlightened in LA...experienced in Brooklyn...actualization in Houston...manifestation in Ft. Myers
Alan Mitchell
#31. Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
Wally Schirra
#32. If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.
Drew Houston
#33. I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.
Pam Houston
#34. Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
Jean Houston
#37. Message reads: 'Houston, be advised: Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man.
Andy Weir
#38. Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.
Pam Houston
#39. I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to a lot of that.
Leah LaBelle
#40. Its unbelievable, I cant even describe it. To be a big part of bringing the World Series the first World Series ever to Houston is just tremendous.
Lance Berkman
#41. We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.
Charles Hamilton Houston
#42. The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.
Franco Harris
#43. I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.
Concha Buika
#44. The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Sam Houston
#45. If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.
Drew Houston
#46. We live in Houston, Texas!" Grandma wiped her hands with a rag. "You'd get heat stroke.
Ilona Andrews
#47. The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.
Drew Houston
#48. 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
#49. And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.
Umberto Guidoni
#50. What was the first name of the Houston club? It wasn't the Astros. It was the Colt .45s. A lot of guys now will say Colt 45 is a beer. But it was also a pistol, and it went right with Texas.
Pat Gillick
#51. I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.
Joe Morgan
#52. A normal person is someone that you don't know very well.
Jean Houston
#53. Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.
David F. Houston
#54. Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team.
Bum Phillips
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas. - Japanese proverb
Philip Houston
#58. She described to us six lanes' worth of unadulterated fear, populated exclusively by motorists whose driving education had been paid for by the blood of pedestrians.
Jeff Deck
#59. 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
#60. I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.
Megan Hilty
#61. The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.
Charles Hamilton Houston
#62. For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion ... even God."
"It is like that for me too," I said. "In English we call that a metaphor."
"Of course," said Renato, "and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth.
Pam Houston
#63. 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
#64. We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.
Jean Houston
#65. It was sweaty Whitney (Houston) in Central Park. She knew that park pretty well. Every bush!
Kathy Griffin
#66. The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.
David F. Houston
#67. I wanted to be the best street fighter in Houston, Texas. And I thought if I got a trophy or two, I'd go back home, and everyone would be afraid of me. I had one fight in '67, the first one. In '68 of October, I was an Olympic gold-medalist, a dream come true, with a total of 25 boxing matches.
George Foreman
#68. 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
#69. Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.
Brian Houston
#70. I didn't know baboons could drive recreational vehicles, but Khufu did okay. When I woke up around dawn, he was navigating through the early morning rush hour in Houston, baring his fangs and barking a lot, and none of the other drivers seemed to notice anything out of the ordinary.
Rick Riordan
#71. Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!
Brian Houston
#72. 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
#73. I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
Whitney Houston
#74. 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
#75. I didn't grow up on dance class. I was always natural. I've been in the industry since I was eight and I've always had a choreographer since then. But I never really took ballet or anything like that.
Marques Houston
#76. Great churches aren't built on the gifts or talents of a few, but on the sacrifice of many.
Brian Houston
#77. His name was Zeke, short for Ezekiel. She asked him if he was religious, he said only about certain things.
Pam Houston
#78. We cannot embrace the New Mind by just sitting around and talking about it. It demands that we alter not just our thinking, but our way of living down to the smallest details.
Jean Houston
#79. 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
#80. Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.
Stephen King
#81. 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
#82. Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story.
Jean Houston
#83. Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.
Adam Dunn
#84. ... what kind of life do we live if we let fear break us down? The truth is there will be tough times, we've certainly been through them before; but good things happen everyday. Great things. We just have to open our eyes and see them.
Christene Houston
#85. The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.
Jean Houston
#86. Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.
David F. Houston
#87. In a world such as ours, where we have to cross the great divide of otherness or we will not survive, love is perhaps the most critical aspect that is there in our humanity, to both activate and to practice.
Jean Houston
#88. A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
Jean Houston
#89. Houston, Apollo 11 ... I've got the world in my window.
NASA
#90. 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
#91. My lady makes me do it. I sang Whitney Houston's "Bodyguard".
Kevin Hart
#92. When I joined, I was one of the first artists to sign on to the Motown West label when they opened their first studio in California. At the studio, you'd run into Stevie Wonder, you'd run into Marvin Gaye ... it was very special.
Thelma Houston
#93. 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
#94. I'm saying that she (Whitney Houston) looks great for a singer ... the way Courtney Love is a singer.
Kathy Griffin
#96. 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
#97. The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.
David F. Houston
#99. I instinctively decided that I would prove that I wasn't different, that it should not be odd to hear me speaking English. From that day forward I lived with this double impulse:the urge to disappear and the desperate desire to be accepted
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
#100. If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.
Drew Houston
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