Dolly Parton Quotes

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

Dolly Parton

• Littles
• Accepted
• Outcast

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a people, you would say that if you get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat your breakfast, go to work, make money, pay your bills, you're progressing, when you're still doing what's comfortable.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Mother

• In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Jews
  • Jew
  • Defending

• People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Good
  • Cutting
  • Scary

• All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Lonely
  • Loneliness

• They had two really good teams those two years, but they've got a really good team this year. I'm hoping upstate this time they can really make a difference.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Time
  • Good
  • Team

• If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Wish
  • Choices
  • Keep Going

• Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love.

  

  J. Allen Boone
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Understanding

• Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black on white. It is music in which all the notes must be heard.

  

  Gabriel Faure
  • Music
  • Black
  • Mistake

• It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Pain
  • Consciousness

• The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Missing
  • Worst

• I have pledged my word to help people on to truth while living and - will keep my word. Let them abuse and revile me. Let some call me a medium, and a Spiritualist, and others an imposter. The day will come when posterity will learn to know me better.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • People
  • Truth
  • Help

• Something has happened, hasn't it? ... It's like being up close to something so large you don't even see it. Even now, I'm not sure I can. But I know it's there.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Up
  • Knows
  • Happened

• Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.

  

  Anne Desclos
  • Joy
  • Sense
  • Grandeur

• When I play my match, I can't think about anything else except what I'm doing on my side of the net.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Think
  • Play
  • Doing

• At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Forever
  • Magic

• I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Littles
  • Accepted
  • Outcast