Dolly Parton Quotes

When its family, you tolerate what you'd kill others for.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

I'm just a simple country girl.

We're all God's children.

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade.

I just try to be true to myself and look the way that I'm comfortable looking. Because if I'm comfortable with me, then you're going to be comfortable with me as well.

I do wear wigs. ... I sometimes make the joke about me standing on a hilltop with my hair blowing in the wind - and me too proud to run after it.

You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that.

A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.

I'm a show-off basically... always have been.

If we all climb together, we could climb the highest hill.

lots of women buy just as many wigs and makeup things as I do ... They just don't wear them all at the same time.

Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.

I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.

It doesn't bother me when someone calls me a 'dumb blonde.' I'm neither dumb or blonde.

Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

Dreams are of no value if they don't have wings and feet.

Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.

I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

It's when you treat people like freaks that you become one yourself.

I have been asked to pose for Penthouse on my hundredth birthday. Everybody is going to be sorry.

My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

I believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard.

A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.

I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.

I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.

I love Velveeta cheese.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

Smile, it increases you face value.

Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.

People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike.

I can't do nothing just a little.

Home is anywhere I hang my hair

People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'

Love is only as strong as your weakest moment.