Dolly Parton Quotes

I couldn't have children, I tried to for years. I've never been pregnant in my life. When I was a girl and fooling around I was scared to death I'd get pregnant, and then when I got married and wanted to have children I couldn't have any. But I don't miss it. I did for awhile, but I realize that I am everybody's mother.

Dolly Parton

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• I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Time
  • Remember
  • True

• The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Why
  • True
  • Free

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Beautiful
  • Poetry

• My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Make
  • Plan
  • Canada

• There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Gaming

• Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Upside Down

• Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Different
  • War

• We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Morning
  • Never
  • Before

• The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Day

• Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Me
  • Policy
  • Buildings

• Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • You
  • Saying

• When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Myself
  • Eye

• I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Doing
  • Most
  • Admire

• Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • People
  • War
  • Die

• In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Energy
  • Permanent
  • Accurate

• Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

  

  Dan Millman
  • World
  • Love
  • Happy

• Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • First
  • Analysis
  • Structural

• If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Christians
  • Known

• When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership papers that Jonathan Ross once owned it. My friends slated me for it because of the colour, but it was cool. My father used to ride, and my mother's boyfriend has a bike, so we're a bit of a biker family.

  

  Thomas Brodie-Sangster
  • Family
  • School
  • Friends

• If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Children
  • Challenge
  • Religions

• I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I'm a very cultural person, and Canada is a very cultural place.

  

  Daystar Peterson

• I couldn't have children, I tried to for years. I've never been pregnant in my life. When I was a girl and fooling around I was scared to death I'd get pregnant, and then when I got married and wanted to have children I couldn't have any. But I don't miss it. I did for awhile, but I realize that I am everybody's mother.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Girl