Kathie Lee Gifford Quotes

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.

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.

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

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

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

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

What most people perceive as energy is really strength of spirit. It comes from the joy of knowing God, loving Him, and being loved by Him.

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.

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

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

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

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.'

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

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

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

I'm not a fan of religion. Religion ties people up and binds them and puts them back in chains but faith - true relationship - releases us to be all what God ever intended us to be. That's what I'm interested in.

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.

To this day I do not believe I'm great at anything.

I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account.

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

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

I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.

Love someone too much to help them prevent making a mistake.

when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except maybe your tax deduction.

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

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.

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.

Just because I'm happy doesn't mean I'm shallow.

They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing.

... humility + humor = humanity.

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

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

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

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

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

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.

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

I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.

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

I don't believe in coincidence. I just think that all things work together for good.

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

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

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

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

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

To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.

I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

If you can do something with your eyes closed, it is time to try something new.