Dolly Parton Quotes - Page 14

The bible says, 'All things are possible.' I believe that.

I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of business, if a woman walks away from the table with what's rightfully hers, the man feels screwed.

People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that's a lot of crock. If God didn't want plastic surgeons, he wouldn't have given them hands to work with.

[On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips.

Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.

I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.

When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.

I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change.

If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.

Poor little Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan... If those little girls slept with as many men as they say in the tabloids, why their little butts would have more fingerprints than the FBI! I kinda feel sorry for them. We should give those two a break.

People always ask me if they're mine. Yes, they are... all bought and paid for.

Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording.

I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.

I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I'm in public, at Dollywood. People say, 'How many wigs do you have?' And I say, 'Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.'

I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.