Dolly Parton Quotes

A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.

Dolly Parton

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• Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Beautiful
  • Tree
  • Uniform

• Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Tree

• The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Past
  • Friend
  • Tree

• 'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Tree
  • Green

• I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Question
  • Survival
  • How

• If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Tree

• The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'

  

  Aesop
  • Tree
  • Fly

• Two lovers, here at the corner, by the steeple,Two lovers blow together like music blowing:And the crowd dissolves about them like a sea.Recurring waves of sound break vaguely about them,They drift from wall to wall, from tree to tree.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Music
  • Together
  • Wall

• Most of the oxygen we breathe is made by ocean plankton. And when animals left the seas in which life arose, they took seawater with them, in their bodies - an internal environment crucial for cellular survival. We are, in a sense, soft vessels of seawater.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Life
  • Environment
  • Ocean

• I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Up
  • Family
  • Tree

• The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Survival

• As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

  

  Chanakya
  • Family
  • Single
  • Son

• The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.

  

  Frank Lowy
  • Survival

• Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.

  

  David Hackworth
  • People
  • American
  • War

• It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Brain
  • Survival

• We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Tree

• We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Life
  • God
  • Fall

• Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

  

  Ken Burns
  • Good
  • History
  • Past

• Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • People
  • Good
  • Church

• I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Me
  • Human
  • Lion

• Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, 'Wow, Really! You don't even know me and I don't know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.'

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Work

• I just wanted to make sure I had the music true to me and the life I'm living and to what I really want to say. That's super important to me.

  

  Demetria McKinney
  • Music
  • Important
  • Wanted

• A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Tree
  • Survival