Dolly Parton Quotes
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My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
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I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.
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Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.
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I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.
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I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.
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I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.
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Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.
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I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.
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My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.
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God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.
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I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.
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Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.
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Many of my friends are gay, male and female. I don't judge people. I don't care what people do in their bedrooms and people shouldn't care what I do in mine.
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I like to think I've been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I'm just going about my work and doing what I do best. I'm a very professional 'Me.'
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I'm a showgirl, as you can tell. I'm ever ready.
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The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
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There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.
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Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.
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Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.
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I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.
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Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success.
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My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
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You never know what's going to happen to you when you head out into the big world. And when you get older, you don't know how you're going to be thought of or seen.
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My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.