Winans Quotes & Sayings

I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times. — BeBe Winans

And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such. — Andrew Wyeth

I think we as a country have definitely got to do better when it comes to housing people of all backgrounds. Not only can the less fortunate afford housing but fewer people of all kinds can afford it. — CeCe Winans

It has always been my understanding that truth and freedom can only exist in wild places. — Daniel J. Rice

I don't have too many pests. My concept is this: I manage myself, and there's nothing wrong with people having managers. — Vickie Winans

It's through our past, that we gain our Future. BW. 2006 — Brandi Winans

I have never been the type of person who has ever worried about what people think. — BeBe Winans

She smashed stereotypes and bridged a racial gap in our country like few who've gone before. — BeBe Winans

I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about. — BeBe Winans

You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through. — BeBe Winans

The rich people are doing well but regular people suffer. We'll all be better off when we realize that we're part of one big family. — CeCe Winans

Among days// Having only the force/ Of days//Most simple/ Most difficult — George Oppen

I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position. — BeBe Winans

I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events. — BeBe Winans

Being exaltingly thin was, of course, the foundation for the visibility, the man, the adornments of this life-to-be; it was the prerequisite that made the rest of the dream possible. And since no matter how thin I got, I was frightened that I could wake up tomorrow and be fat again, the rest of the dream was forever ten or twenty pounds away. — Geneen Roth

Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on! — BeBe Winans

Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have. — BeBe Winans

The Winans have been some of my favorite people, and Marvin certainly has a real anointing when he preaches and sings; he's a great interpreter of my music. — Andrae Crouch

We are all possibilites waiting to happen. BW 2004 — Brandi Winans

People need to know, before I'm associated with any party, I am an American, and that's what I want to drive home at the RNC. — BeBe Winans

If I can learn how to manage myself, why would I give you 20 percent and people are looking for me? It just doesn't make sense. — Vickie Winans

Life is funny, and a lot of times, the people that I've met have really gone past anything that I've ever dreamed of, so I'm really grateful. My friendships really go from the West to the East. You'd be amazed at some of the people I call friends. — BeBe Winans

When the song is over, the mikes turned off, the lights dimmed, all the glitter and glamour shed, and I am left alone with my own thoughts, free to contemplate the paths that led me to where I am today, I pause to give thanks. — CeCe Winans

All the green-screen stuff - all the special effects stuff - I shot right there in my house, in the basement in my theater room ... — Vickie Winans

I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned. — BeBe Winans

Everybody's not going to understand where God has called you to go, but that is not an excuse for you not to go there. Then, when He puts you in certain places, it's a spiritual warfare to stay there. — CeCe Winans

Last of all, this book owes perhaps its biggest debt to the ultimate models for Kira and Heron and every other awesome girl in the Partials series: my two daughters. May you always have heroines to inspire you, role models to look up to, and the freedom and courage to make your own choices, no matter how simple or scary or hard or eternal they may be. — Dan Wells