Dolly Parton Quotes

It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life.

Dolly Parton

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• I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.

  

  Kajol
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Way

• I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Problem
  • Yourself
  • Calm

• It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • May
  • Speak
  • Act

• Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Ambition
  • Meaningful

• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Looking
  • I Can
  • Ordinary

• The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Father
  • Me
  • King

• I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Skill

• It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Laugh

• I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Country
  • Living
  • Italy

• I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Sick

• Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Life
  • Country
  • Why

• I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.

  

  Babe Paley
  • Home
  • Persons
  • Still

• Every man has a long list of things that should be done, but which he knows can't be done. Yet he continues to talk about them as long as he lives.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Long
  • Done

• I do remember the people who believed in me in the beginning. I'll never forget that.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • People
  • Remember
  • Beginning

• Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Mother
  • Water

• What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?

  

  Alan Cohen

• Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

  

  Armstrong Williams
  • Up
  • World
  • Learning

• People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • People
  • Life

• If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Giving

• Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too much rigidity in teaching. If we set out to give as little help as possible to originality in science, we could hardly devise a better plan than our education system. Youngsters ought to be told what is unknown about ourselves and our universe as well as what is known.

  

  William Lipscomb
  • School
  • Giving
  • Ignorance

• Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Voice
  • Need
  • Solitude

• A grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

  

  William Walton
  • Death
  • Being
  • Grudge

• When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the cover, I said, "No, no, no, no, no, no." No genre whatsoever. It's an independent work not really connected to those things at all.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Independent
  • Winter
  • Journal

• It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Seems