The Cissy Quotes & Sayings

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

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children. — Cissy Houston

You can't treat your voice badly and expect it to stay around. — Cissy Houston

Americans have never really caught on to the idea of sheep. I think they think it's cissy. — Hugh Laurie

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

My faith keeps me strong. — Cissy Houston

Sometimes, all you can do ... is sing. — Cissy Houston

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

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