Dolly Parton Quotes - Page 7

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

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'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 hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something... I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then.

My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart.

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

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

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.

I couldn't have children, I tried to for years. I've never been pregnant in my life. When I was a girl and fooling around I was scared to death I'd get pregnant, and then when I got married and wanted to have children I couldn't have any. But I don't miss it. I did for awhile, but I realize that I am everybody's mother.

Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me. Wigs. Tight clothes. Push up bras.

I wake up with new dreams every day. So the more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me. And the older I get, the earlier I get up. The second my feet hit the floor, I'm awake. I'm like hurry, hurry. I just love life. And I feel like we ain't got but a certain amount of time anyway. I want to make the most of all of it.

I love Velveeta cheese.

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.

Yeah I flirt, I'm not blind and I'm not dead!.

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

People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.