Dolly Parton Quotes

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

Dolly Parton

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• It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Always
  • Being
  • Poor

• Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Important
  • Heart

• My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Want
  • Animal
  • Bear

• Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Animal
  • Famous
  • Train

• Without electricity, the air would rot.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Air
  • Without
  • Electricity

• With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Confidence

• Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • True
  • Man
  • Religious

• 'Animal Ark', was when I was fourteen years old, and it was an ITV children's program, and I did an episode called, 'Bunnies in the Bathroom.' And I'm not sure if it was my finest hour.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Children
  • Animal
  • Old

• Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Happiness
  • Animal
  • Equality

• I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Kind
  • Powerful
  • Animal

• I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.

  

  Sam Simon
  • People
  • Help
  • Animal

• We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Myself
  • Couple
  • Person

• When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Child
  • Animal
  • Circus

• A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Animal
  • Garden

• 'You only blinched inside,' said Pooh, 'and that's the bravest way for a Very Small Animal not to blinch that there is.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Small
  • Animal

• Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, they must have some boundaries. I am against hitting them though; just send the vibe and that will do it.

  

  Connie Stevens
  • Freedom
  • Animal

• Give a man a chance, and he'll be so casual that he won't bathe, shave, or comb his hair. He'll just depend on his animal magnetism to get him by.

  

  Elsa Schiaparelli
  • Hair
  • Animal

• Man when not stimulated by hope or necessity is naturally a lazy animal.

  

  George Trumbull Ladd
  • Hope
  • Man
  • Animal

• …my two chronic diseases of gluttony and satyriasis…

  

  Anthony Burgess

• I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put on the uniform year after year. That, to me, is exciting.

  

  Bert Blyleven
  • Baseball

• A service is said to be scalable if when we increase the resources in a system, it results in increased performance in a manner proportional to resources added.

  

  Werner Vogels
  • Said
  • Resources
  • Performances

• The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.

  

  Will Ferguson
  • Great
  • Americans
  • Disappear

• I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Animal
  • Poor
  • Electricity