Top 82 Quotes & Sayings by Tina Knowles

Beyonce knows what looks good on her and what doesn't. She likes fitted dresses. They flatter her curvy figure. Baggy tops don't work. But for everyday wear, she really prefers jeans and a fitted jacket.

When I look at me, I think I'm a good catch. Why wouldn't somebody like me for me? I'm a pleasant person. I'm an intelligent person. I'm a good person. I'm not bad looking. Why wouldn't I be able to get somebody to like me?

There was a time when I doubted if I would find love again. But I was determined to be happy.

Everybody has their pain.

The whole thing about dating was the scariest thing in the world. And I would tell my friends, 'I'm never going to find anyone. Where am I going to find someone? By now, I'm 59 years old. Where do you meet men?' It was really funny. So I just focused on myself.

I believe in the power of great clothing. It can evoke confidence, beauty, and a sense of glamour.

When Beyonce began singing in earnest, she was 10 years old.

Beyonce has long, muscular legs but is tall, thin, and very curvy, even voluptuous.

I was from this small town, and my parents were poor.

You want kids to dream big.

As a designer, I believe in the power of fashion. It has the ability to not only change how you look but also how you feel about yourself.

I not only enjoy a really great friendship with both my girls but also a close mother-daughter bond as well.

Being in the music business, if we couldn't pull the fashions from designers and if designers couldn't use artists to show off their fashions, where would we be?

My mother, Agnes Dereon Beyince, was a seamstress and designer, and her passion passed down to me.

We have always been a family that's given back. We just don't make a lot of noise about it.

I don't post pictures of my grandchildren unless I get permission. I'm really respectful about that. If I feel like anything is invasive of someone's privacy, I don't do that, either. Sometimes I have great pictures, but I'm like, 'Eh, maybe this is not right.'

Haters gonna be haters, and there's nothing we can do about that.

My grandkids are amazing.

Diana Ross... she's the bomb.

I think that everybody, at one time or another, has been betrayed and lied to, and it's about the pain, and it's about the healing process, and it's about how do you get past that and move on.

I grew up with Cher and Motown, beautiful costumes.

I am very fortunate that I have such close relationships with both of my daughters.

I'm the makeover queen. I love to do makeovers on people.

It's easy to make clothes for a model, but when you can put them on real women and real curves, that's the test.

Beyonce was very shy around children, and one of the reasons we put her in dance classes was so she'd have some little kid friends.

We can still be sexy and vibrant, fashionable, classy, and fly until the day we die!

We pray before everything - videos, onstage, TV shows. I think that has a lot to do with being successful.

Sometimes people hear that you help somebody or you said something that really resonated with them that they really needed to hear. Sometimes people get motivated to go and do stuff. That makes me feel really good because I feel like I'm affecting people in a good way.

When my kids were young, we used to go to a place called The Shrine of the Black Madonna in Houston. It was an African-American bookstore where they sold paintings, but they also had a room that was an all-purpose center. If you wanted to have a dance recital or anything that was related to the community activities, you could have it there.

I loved Diahann Caroll growing up. I love a sophisticated, classy woman.

I'd like to reinforce that fact that if you put out positive stuff that that's what you get back.

If you hold onto stuff, it holds on to you. It just weighs you down, and it's a waste of energy. Why would I waste my energy on being bitter and hating when I could be using it to go out and do some really good stuff, you know?

You want to have a relationship with a man, but, at the end of the day, you have to have some good ole girlfriends. When you are at your lowest, they are going to be there.

I taught my girls to pick up their own suitcases. Pretty is as pretty does.

In the music business, if you're not a fighter, you will get walked all over.

I'm a huge fan of Motown. When you saw them on stage, you saw sparkle... you saw attitude. They didn't have on t-shirt and jeans.

Louisiana is a special place in my family's history, and we are committed as a family to never forget the city and the people of Baton Rouge.

When we say, 'We are starving,' we have to remember that there are people who are literally starving. If everyone fed one person, one meal, we could make a huge difference.

You can dress sexy without going too far.

The music business inspires designers, and designers inspire the music business.

In high school, I had a singing group, and I designed the outfits and made my friends' prom dresses.

My mother was a very amazing woman. She was a very strong, remarkable woman.

When I went through my divorce, I decided that I was going to pray this time for someone. Then, God sent me someone. I prayed for the specific qualities I wanted in a man, and I wasn't going to settle for anything less.

My 'Book of Prayer' is the most important thing I carry. If I'm tense about something or need to pray for protection for my kids, it always helps.

If you're going through something, just know that you're gonna come out on the other side. You're going through it - you're not stuck there forever.

I'm a grandmother, but I don't want to look like a grandmother. I still want to look sexy and sophisticated.

Our lives haven't been picture-perfect.

I don't understand women who don't love women. I love women. I just think they are magnificent creatures.

I've read some things where people are like, 'Beyonce wants to be white' because she has blonde highlights in her hair, but it's ridiculous. You know, she is who she is, and she's a very proud black woman. I know people with natural hair that are the least black inside; you know, it doesn't matter.

As a teenager, my brother's girlfriend came into my life, and I just thought she was the bomb. I followed her around, and she could just say anything, and it would influence me. She took me to my first nice restaurant, bought me my first nice handbag, and took me to my first Alvin Ailey show when I was 14, which changed my life.

Nothing makes me happier than for a woman to come up to me saying, 'I started exercising, and I lost weight, and I got a new man,' and you know, I get chills thinking about it. It's my purpose; I feel like I found my purpose.

Artists are blessed to travel all over the world. They see the trends before they even come out.

When you get to be a certain age, you want to wear your tops a little longer or pants that are more generous in the back area.

People always accuse us of being overprotective with Beyonce. But I was the mother saying, 'You gonna go hang out? You gonna go to this party?' She was always just so durn easy, so durn mature.

I'm always ready for more grandbabies.

Hair color is just an expression of something different that you want to have, or something creative.

You can find love at any age. You just have to go for it.

Everything in my life happened for a reason. Even when I thought they were the worst things in the world, they turned out to be the best things in the world.

I think, when you value yourself and respect yourself, everything else just falls into place.

My girls do a lot of philanthropic work, but they are very private about it.