Vanessa Williams Quotations

I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special.

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

And when people give me their word, I listen to them.

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

I enjoy the companionship we have with everyone else, and the meals we don't have to fix. We look forward to coming every Thursday. It's as good as Sundays to us.

Natasha was incredibly smart and articulate and certainly a power broker, a business woman that really impressed me the first time I met with her.

The past just came up and kicked me.

Sometimes the snow comes down in June, sometimes the sun goes around the moon.

South Beach. She has a flavor and a hunger for young men.

They can hear a lot of hits. They can hear a lot of my hits -- my current album is hits from the 70s, my favorite stuff. So they'll hear Chaka Kahn, the Ohio Players, and they'll also hear the ones they know and love,

I ask our Legislature to do whatever is necessary to protect the future of my child. All I want is what every other parent wants - what's best for my child.

And I believe it happened somewhere first and they put her in the car and one person couldn't have lifted that dead weight.