Cissy Quotes

#1. From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.

Aberjhani

#2. Americans have never really caught on to the idea of sheep. I think they think it's cissy.

Hugh Laurie

#3. A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.

Barbara Park

#4. You want to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. But the truth is, there's only a few Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys out there.

Michael Buble

#5. Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Cissy Houston

#6. My faith keeps me strong.

Cissy Houston

#7. To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.

John Calvin

#8. You are the only one who can make it happen for you. Others can support and encourage you, but you have to find the energy within in order to step into the center of your own life and take charge.

Lynda Field

#9. His new neighbor made James Bond look like an alcoholic slacker.

Alexi Lawless

#10. I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

Cissy Houston

#11. I'm very proud of my daughter. She accomplished a whole lot in the short time that she had here ... she was a very wonderful person.

Cissy Houston

#12. You can't treat your voice badly and expect it to stay around.

Cissy Houston

#13. When I was skating I felt I represented not just my family and the people who helped me make it to that point, but also New York and the country.

Sarah Hughes

#14. I am so grateful to God for giving me the gift of 48 years with my daughter. And I accept that He knew when it was time to take her.

Cissy Houston

#15. We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.

Ernst Haas

#16. Sometimes, all you can do ... is sing.

Cissy Houston

#17. Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.

Kate Christensen