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 natural born reason we didn't git no yew-ranium when we crosses the li'l yew tree and the gee-ranium is on account of cause we didn't have no geiger counter.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Tree

• Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Thoughts
  • Emotional
  • Survival

• 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

• My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Survival

• 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

• If you gaze at a single leaf on a single tree, you do not see the other leaves. If you face the tree with no intention and do not fix your eyes on a single leaf, then you will see all the many leaves. If your mind is preoccupied with one leaf, you do not see the others, if you do not set your attention on one; you will see hundreds and thousands of leaves.

  

  Yagyu Munenori
  • Eyes
  • Tree
  • Fix

• A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market.

  

  Burt Rutan
  • People
  • Space
  • Study

• It's very hard when your child doesn't want to talk to you and you want to talk to them, and you want to touch them, you want to hold them.

  

  Debbie Reynolds

• Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.

  

  William Cowper
  • Break
  • Dignity

• Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Person
  • Parent
  • Times

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

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Tree
  • Survival