Dolly Parton Quotes

I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

Dolly Parton

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• When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Church
  • Grandmother

• My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Church

• Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Church
  • End
  • Start

• Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Life
  • Political
  • Faith

• In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Death
  • Church
  • Anniversary

• The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • God
  • Church

• Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • High
  • Church
  • Now

• Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer. We can just step off the sidewalk. And sometimes we can get impressionable members of the opposite sex to perform sacramental rites with us. 'Every drop of water wasted is a drop less of a wild and scenic river, Jennifer. We'd better double up in the shower.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Earth

• The village of Market Blandings is one of those sleepy hamlets which modern progress has failed to touch... The church is Norman, and the intelligence of the majority of the natives palaeozoic.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Church
  • Progress

• 'In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell for all eternity...it didn’t take long for me to start thinking that sounded all wrong ...I didn’t cotton to the idea that your religion should be flaunted to other people. Your religion is for you, and is best kept close to your heart.'

  

  Willie Nelson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• In the morning, we sliced all the vegetables and layered everything up in a pot with a glass of Riesling. On the way to church, we dropped it off with the baker, who sealed the lid with a strip of dough and put it in his oven for a couple of hours. We picked it up at 12 o'clock and took it home to eat with mustard and salad.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Up
  • Home
  • Morning

• People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • God
  • Church

• I think the idea that life ends when we physically die is as painful as the idea in Cromwell's time that there's some awful purgatory, and you have to give money to the Catholic church to get your loved ones out. I certainly have experienced a lot of evidence that there's a consciousness that isn't physical.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • God
  • Church
  • Catholic

• I enjoy going to church.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Church

• In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.

  

  David Amram
  • Church

• I think people are transient. Back in the early church, there was a 'stick and stay' mentality. In this day and time, people have a fast food mentality of ministry. If it doesn't fit them or if it doesn't fit in their schedule, they'll move on to something else. That's a norm in today's time.

  

  Marvin Sapp
  • People
  • Time
  • Today

• Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • People
  • Church
  • Effort

• I grew up loving music and being super involved in church choir and school musicals and such, but when I started writing is when I fell in love with the idea of doing it for the rest of my life.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I had this moment in church, which I think really turned me off. I was 7 or 8 years old and I was sitting at church, and we happened to be playing with the sunlight that was coming down from the stained glass window, and the monsignor came down to the pew and grabbed us by our neck collars and said, 'I'll deal with you.'

  

  Jeff Fisher
  • Church

• I like dresses for night; I like after-party more than party. I like the mystery; I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. I think, also, that you make women dream.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Night

• While it is important to win, it’s even more important to remain undefeated no matter what happens.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Important
  • Winning
  • Matter

• I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?

  

  Morag Joss
  • People
  • Events
  • Survive

• I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Church
  • Boys
  • Bathroom