Yolanda Gampp Quotes

Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance. ~ Yolanda Adams

Vanilla people are very quick to judge what they don't understand. ~ Yolanda Olson

There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.' ~ Yolanda Adams

Anyone can love you when things are alright. It takes courage to love when things are not good and it does not feel right. ~ Yolanda Adams

I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever. ~ Yolanda Adams

My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that. ~ Yolanda Adams

I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing. ~ Yolanda Adams

David Hudson was rising in the political field. As a senator from New York, he had it all – good looks, a well-known family name and the finances to go with it, but for David, it was never enough. He graduated from an Ivy League school at the top of his class, and his parents were political royalty in America so he grew up in the spotlight with all of the luxuries one could imagine. ~ Yolanda Richards

Haven't you guessed by now? I'm a monster. I don't hide under your bed or in your closet. I don't lurk in dark corners or only come out at night. ~ Yolanda Olson

Whenever he was around, I always forgot to breathe-Diamond Anderson, One Man's Trash ~ Yolanda Allen

THE HONEYEATER story was mesmerizing: the story took hold of me and I felt compelled to write it. I was also inspired by a few female authors (among them, Doris Lessing and Isabel Allende) I've admired over the years
women who preceded me and who gave me the courage to even begin. ~ Yolanda A. Reid

Kendall looks like you. Except for the blonde hair," he said thoughtfully again. "What," I asked confused. "Kendall? She reminds me of you. I can't help but think that if you don't want to be my ... well," he cleared his throat, then continued, "maybe I'll have her take your place." "If you DARE go near my sister, so help me I will - " "You have thirty days to decide then," he said cutting me off. I ~ Yolanda Olson

I know in my heart the dream will be realized. I choose to believe. And choosing is a powerful thing. It's available to you at every moment. You can choose understanding over anger, believing over nonbelieving, action over inaction. It gives meaning to every choice we make. ~ Yolanda King

We must remember that beauty is dictated from the spectators opinion therefore anyone can be beautiful depending on who is watching you ~ Yolanda De Iuliis

We're none of us, are we, just one thing? I am a policeman, but also a father, a husband for the time being, a nursemaid to a sister who I pray will survive her illness. You are a journalist, a writer, and I don't know what else besides. To look at a person from a single angle is to deform them. Even if Yolanda is guilty...she is also afraid of the dark. And I cannot forget that I put her there. ~ Nicholas Shakespeare

I want you to take your clothes off. I want you to come upstairs with me. I want to fuck you, Ms. Riley. I desperately want to feel you from the inside. I want to revel in you tightening around me," he whispered, pressing himself against me. ~ Yolanda Olson

When you win a Grammy ... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one. ~ Yolanda Adams

Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it. ~ Yolanda Adams

I think this is where it started, the day I fell in love with her.
The start of a series of events that would change my life forever. ~ Yolanda Hatcher

He looked down at her and rolled his eyes then looked over and saw me approaching with the chain. "What happened to her?" I asked peeking around him. "I knocked her out. I got tired of listening to her whimpering. I mean if you're a cold blooded killer, act like it." He ~ Yolanda Olson

Mind controlling can be very useful to us," Kae said in a whisper. "Yes, obviously she can do that very well," Ryker whispered back bitterly. "Finnegan, what do you think?" Kaeden asked. He and Ryker both turned to look at me expectantly. On the one hand it did help to have a mind controlling angel, demon person. ~ Yolanda Olson

No matter how hard it seems ... never give up, always believe. ~ Yolanda Adams

If I was dead broke and had to feed my three children. I'd do anything. ~ Yolanda Foster

As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day. ~ Yolanda Adams

I kept seeing Yolanda on the parquet, two men pinning her to the ground, her eyes loaded with hatred and madness combing her hair. I was stormed by her image and my heart could not bear it. We know so little about people. But about the people we love, we know even less. ~ Nicholas Shakespeare

You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you. ~ Yolanda Adams

Then she spoke with Yolanda, her eldest child, with whom she'd been shopping all afternoon for an Easter dress. "Mommy, I'm not going to cry," Yoki said resolutely. "I'll see him again in heaven."
But something was bothering her, something clearly nagged at her young conscience. "Should I hate the man who killed my father?" she asked.
Coretta shook her head. "No, darling, your daddy wouldn't want you to do that. ~ Hampton Sides

I had awoken back to Hell on Earth with the prince of darkness himself holding me so tightly against him. Almost as if he wanted to make sure that I would never go back to that dark place where he couldn't follow. ~ Yolanda Olson

Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them. ~ Yolanda Adams

How can someone with the face of an angel hide the intentions of the devil so well? ~ Yolanda Olson

I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it. ~ Yolanda Adams

His accent was absolutely delicious and I didn't mind talking to him for a little while. ~ Yolanda Olson

I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it. ~ Yolanda Adams

I like to have fun, but I don't play games. ~ Yolanda Foster

That we could be like normal people and live happily ever after. That a love like ours, while brief and intense, would really come only once in a lifetime. ~ Yolanda Olson

What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated. ~ Yolanda King

Stop following the con artists, instead become the greatest and brightest artist ever to exist and let others follow your light instead ~ Yolanda De Iuliis

It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time. ~ Yolanda Adams

An angel wants to know the face of the devil," he mused more to himself than to me. "If I allow this, will it satisfy you? ~ Yolanda Olson

I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking. ~ Yolanda Adams

It was the way he looked at me when he climbed on top of me that excited me the most. The look of pure dominance that told me that this was going to go his way and not mine made me so eager for it that I pulled him down gruffly toward me and kissed him deeply. ~ Yolanda Olson

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college. ~ Yolanda Adams

To do peace, you must get up off your apathy. ~ Yolanda King