Dolly Parton Quotes

God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.

The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.

I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts.

You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.

I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair

I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

I count my blessings far more than I count my money.

When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all.

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.

You're no Elvis Presley, I'm no Marilyn Monroe, but I do think you're sexy, just thought I'd tell you so.

You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.

I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

Goodbye- please don't cry/we both know that I'm not what you need. But I will always love you.

Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

God and I have a great relationship but we both see other people.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.

I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'

It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do.

Don't judge me by the cover, 'cause I'm a real good book.

Paradise is a state of mind.

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.

I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.

Well, my smile's pretty hard to miss, considering I'm a gal who likes her lipstick-the redder the better.

I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.

You have to work hard, in order to get anything done.

My lips, I've used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.

I'll never graduate from collagen.

My fat never made me less money.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.

I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love.

I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.

We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

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

I'm not sixty, I'm "sexty.

When I'm feeling a little low, I put on my favorite high heels to stand a little taller.