Top 625 Quotes & Sayings by Dolly Parton - Page 10

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

Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way.

I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.

Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

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

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods. But we are idols and we're all gods, so to speak, and I think that celebrities should acknowledge their responsibility, because we are in a position to help.

If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.

Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to.

I have just one tube of lipstick, but it's as big as a can of hairspray.

I embrace everybody for who and what they are.

In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week.

You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.

I have two favorite colors - white and yellow. White makes me feel light and airy. Yellow makes me happy.

My mistakes are no worse than yours.

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

Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.

So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.

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

I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.

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

I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.

A baby, a real live baby was the craziest thing a fan has sent. Someone left a baby on our front doorstep with a note that they wanted us to raise it. Of course, we contacted the authorities and they took care of the baby.

I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.

Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are smarter than you.

I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.

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

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.

I usually eat breakfast twice. I'm usually up at 3 a.m. - do my spiritual work, my affirmations, a little bit of songwriting, get my daily work in order, and by that time I've worked up a bigger appetite.

I love everybody. My heart's open to everybody.

We get along real well actually [with my husband Karl Tomas Din]. We give each other space and he's not in the business and he doesn't want to be. I'm interested in his world, he's interested in mine, but we have our own things that we do together.

I have a good attitude. And I was born with a happy heart. I'm always looking for things to be better.

Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.

I haven't stopped working since I was 10.

I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.

The world is my stage. I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!

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 hope you're never happy with anybody but me, and every face you look into, I hope you're haunted by me. Yes, I'm possessive and jealous, at least I speak honestly.

The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of.

I have a life outside the arenas.

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.

Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.

I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.

Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.

I just always knew I was going to be a star. I was always going to be rich so I could buy things for Mommy and Daddy, so that I could buy them a big house and we could have things.

I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.

I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound.

I'm not really a political-type person, meaning that I don't really make great stands or whatever, but if you ask me a direct question I say it shouldn't matter who you are, whether you're black, white, green, gay, male, female. If you can do a job and do it well you should be paid for it, you should be respected for it, and you have to be responsible. I think sometimes people can go too fare trying to make a point. I think they should just make their point and go on about.

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.

I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do.

I do have a natural sense for business, which I think I get from my Dad.

I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.

I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting.

You can't just wish to be a millionaire; you have to figure out how to earn it.

With the first money I ever made I bought my Mommy and Daddy a car, and helped them fix their house up.

We're not all perfect. People always say to me: "Oh you seem happy all the time." But I'm not happy all the time. I'm a human being. I'm very sensitive. I hurt like anybody else. But I do try my best to have a good attitude and I set about tryin' to take care of myself knowing I'm not going to be exactly right, so I just try to see what I can do to improve every single day.

I am amazed at the response of my being on the show. Everywhere I go, every young person points at me and says "Hi, Aunt Dolly." Or "Are you Aunt Dolly?" I love doing the show and I love Miley and Billy Ray [Cyrus]. I am proud to be her honorary Godmother.

A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn't read and write. And my dad was very proud of me.

I'm just a person; I like to experience whatever the feeling is and whatever I'm going through.