Kathie Lee Gifford Quotes

Trust takes one second to lose and a lifetime to rebuild.

I want to be free and free indeed and live and live abundant!

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

If I'm in love I want to get married. That's how stupid I am.

I believe it was Today show fourth-hour host Kathie Lee Gifford who said, 'If drag queens love you, you'll have the longest career in the world. They know phony and they know real.'

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

But the Bible says, even though we may blow it every day,
God's mercy is fresh for us every morning.

Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.

I change my hairstyle every day for the show, I'm fastidious and vain about my nails and teeth and grooming and makeup, but a perfect body, forget it. Dust to dust, wuggies to wuggies.

People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.

[On Regis Philbin:] He's like everybody's kid brother with his hand in the cookie jar and his foot in his mouth. You love him, but you can't take him anywhere.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

A two-career couple with children is a complex, sensitive piece of machinery with lots of moving parts. Anything less than total cooperation will throw it out of whack and shut it down. A couple can wind up paying the ultimate price for trying to have it all - losing it all.

I don't think Lloyd's of London would insure this mouth.

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.

If I prayed as much as I pluck, I'd be the Dalai Lama.

There were no bigger stars in the new evangelism than the Bakkers.

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

People may be in awe of perfection, but they warm to humanity.

My daddy. . . . . used to say, 'Honey, find something you love to do and then figure out a way to get paid for it.' He understood that where your true passion is, there your joy is also. And a joyful life is a truly successful life. Perhaps not by the world's standards, but whose life is it anyway?

I think sometimes the very reason we go through something is so that we can be empathetic with another person later on.

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.

No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for
ulcers, hypertension, and heart attacks. We're racing around trying to be all things to all people, burdened by a brutal mix of ambition, anxiety, and guilt.

What a dire time to be attracted to men.

I'm post-menopausal. I have nothing but time. Post-menopausal do not sleep. You obviously don't know one. We get about three hours of sleep a night and the rest of the time we have to do something productive with our time.

Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.

For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.

I have empathy for the person who is being interviewed and written about with all kinds of misperceptions and misconceptions and flat-out lies. So I feel for them, I feel their pain. I know what that is like.

Miracles is the sort of book that once you've read it you'll wonder where it's been all your life

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.

I like sitting in the dark and watching people far more talented than I'll ever be sing my songs and say my words. It's thrilling.

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.

God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.