--- title: "1 Stair Quotes By Sapphire" description: "1 Stair quotes by Sapphire. Plus more from Sapphire and more Stair sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc6/sapphire-21243_life_mother-to-son-well-son-i-ll-tell-you-lif_1873205.jpg" --- > [“Mother to Son Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor - Bare. But all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sapphire/mother-to-son-well-son-i-ll-tell-you-life-for-me-ain-t-been-no/) [Sapphire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sapphire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc6/sapphire-21243_life_mother-to-son-well-son-i-ll-tell-you-lif_1873205.jpg) ## More by Sapphire > [“The answer is always yes to cheese.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sapphire/the-answer-is-always-yes-to-cheese/) [Sapphire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sapphire/) > [“A girl takes my tongue, signs her name & asks me how do I like it?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sapphire/a-girl-takes-my-tongue-signs-her-name-asks-me-how-do-i-like-it/) [Sapphire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sapphire/) > [“Is life a hammer to beat me down?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sapphire/is-life-a-hammer-to-beat-me-down/) [Sapphire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sapphire/) > [Last week we went to the museum. A whole whale is hanging from the ceiling. Bigger than big! OK, have you seen a Volkswagon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sapphire/last-week-we-went-to-the-museum-a-whole-whale-is-hanging-from-the/) [Sapphire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sapphire/) > [“If God made anything better than Coffee and Chocolate, he kept it to himself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sapphire/if-god-made-anything-better-than-coffee-and-chocolate-he-kept-it-to/) [Sapphire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sapphire/) > [“I wanna say I am somebody. I wanna say it on subway, TV, movie, LOUD. I see the pink faces in suits look over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sapphire/i-wanna-say-i-am-somebody-i-wanna-say-it-on-subway-tv-movie-loud-i/) [Sapphire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sapphire/) > [“How is something a memory if you never forgit?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sapphire/how-is-something-a-memory-if-you-never-forgit/) [Sapphire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sapphire/) > [“I bite my fingernails till they look like disease, pull strips of my skin away. Get Daddy's razor out cabinet. Cut cut cut arm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sapphire/i-bite-my-fingernails-till-they-look-like-disease-pull-strips-of-my/) [Sapphire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sapphire/) > [I changed the past by walking back into it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sapphire/i-changed-the-past-by-walking-back-into-it/) [Sapphire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sapphire/) > [I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning. I'm drinking hot chocolate in the Village wif…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sapphire/i-m-alive-inside-a-bird-is-my-heart-mama-and-daddy-is-not-win-i-m/) [Sapphire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sapphire/) > [Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sapphire/every-blade-of-grass-has-its-angel-that-bends-over-it-and-whispers-2/) [Sapphire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sapphire/) > [I know you are, but you gotta push](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sapphire/i-know-you-are-but-you-gotta-push/) [Sapphire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sapphire/) > [“I’m curious to see, now that beauty is gone, what will be reflected in a mans eyes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sapphire/i-m-curious-to-see-now-that-beauty-is-gone-what-will-be-reflected-in/) [Sapphire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sapphire/) > [“I don't understand why some kids git a good school and mother and father and some don't. But Rita say forgit the WHY ME…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sapphire/i-don-t-understand-why-some-kids-git-a-good-school-and-mother-and/) [Sapphire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sapphire/) > [Listen baby, Muver love you. Muver not dumb. Listen baby: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Thas the alphabet. Twenty- six letters in all. Them letters make up words.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sapphire/listen-baby-muver-love-you-muver-not-dumb-listen-baby/) [Sapphire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sapphire/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/stair/sapphire/#itemlist", "name": "1 Stair Quotes By Sapphire", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Mother to Son Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. 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