Bits and Pieces Quotes

“She’d call me up and say, “I just want to say thank you. This was a perfect day.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“letting other people’s opinions take your attention or energy. She thought the most important opinion was what you thought of yourself and how you lived your life.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“You’ve got two choices. You can waste a lot of time complaining, or you can get up and figure out how to fix it.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“Listen, there are going to be terrible things that happen in the world. And there’s nothing you can do about them. They are what they are. But your decision is going to have to be, ‘Do I allow those bad things to stunt my growth as a human being? Am I just going to sit down and die over it? Or am I going to try to figure out how to be better?’ Which one do you think is a waste of time?”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“She believed in perseverance and moving forward, not standing still.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother and Me

“Why do you need to know that? Why can’t I tell you Santa Claus brought it? Why isn’t that enough?” She never spilled her secrets. She’d just smile, look at me sideways, and say, “It’s all magical as far as I know.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“that read: “Thanks for letting me rent the room.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“Every November 13, my birthday, I would have flowers sent to my mother with a card”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“I’d pick out five or ten free lectures or exhibits each week and promise her that I would attend to supplement my education. That was our”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“Listen, you can do anything you want to do. It’s going to take you a little bit longer. You’ll have to figure a couple of things out. But you can do that.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“A couple of days after she died, I realized that there would be no one on this earth who loved me as much as she did. I wouldn’t put that kind of sparkle in anyone else’s”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“She thought the most important opinion was what you thought of yourself and how you lived your life.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“She stopped walking and faced me. “Listen. I left everything. I took what I wanted. I dropped the house key into the incinerator, and I left.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“I think that’s my new mission: to be more appreciative of my days, like my mom.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“there doing what you do, and we’re staying together and doing this as a family.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“I had a great time, a great time.” At other times, she’d say, “I’m so appreciative that Clyde’s here with me, and you’re”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“I know my mission to give back to her everything she had given me happened while she was alive.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“That was the first day of my ongoing friendship with Marlon Brando. When he passed away, I got a phone call that he had left me a parcel of land on his Fiji island. It really threw me”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“At the Blake Street theater, I was around creative people who gave me stage time and a chance to improvise and develop some characters.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“I’d do hair by day and work with the San Diego Rep at night, and I figured out how to get by with some food”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“some food stamps. And that’s how I figured it out. I had other small jobs on the side, but I had to be careful because whatever I made, they would take it out of the next welfare check.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“You know, I was young and I thought I was doing what was expected of me. Besides, I had already agreed to it. I didn’t know what being in love should feel like. He”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“on a Monday. Then, Vinnette called my house on Tuesday. “I’m so sorry, darling,” she said. “I’ve changed my mind. I feel I have to do it this way.” I suddenly no longer had the part.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“Because my mom was open to it and encouraged it, I started going on stage around age eight at the Hudson Guild Theatre in Chelsea. The shows were performed in the auditorium of the”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“I was nearby and heard one of the ladies say, “You know, Caryn’s no beauty. She’s gonna have to find a job and work.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“Because of my mom, I was able to go from being Caryn Johnson, the “little weird kid” from”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“It’s this thing we all have to face, the death of those who knew you the best, the people in your life story. I am very lonely for my family. I get lonely for the two of them.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

“Crying and laughing are not that far apart in the world of memories.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me