Dolly Parton
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.Collection: God
My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.Collection: Men
The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.Collection: Marriage
I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'Collection: Age
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.Collection: Positive
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.Collection: Intelligence
I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.Collection: Diet
I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.Collection: Chance
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.Collection: Attitude
It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.Collection: Money
No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!Collection: Christmas
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.Collection: Attitude
I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.Collection: Travel
I'm trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.Collection: Technology
They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.Collection: Intelligence
You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.Collection: Business
Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.Collection: Family
When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.Collection: Travel
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.Collection: Car
I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.Collection: Romantic
I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.Collection: Attitude
God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.Collection: Relationship
I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.Collection: Beauty
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.Collection: Morning
Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.Collection: Diet
When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.Collection: Imagination
Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.Collection: Funny
I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.Collection: Sad
A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.Collection: Dreams
We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.Collection: Best
I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that.Collection: Good
I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.Collection: Death
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.Collection: Music
My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.Collection: Movies
If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.Collection: Work
I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.Collection: Good
My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.Collection: Funny
Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.Collection: Business
I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.
I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.
If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.
I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.
My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.
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.
'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.
Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'
All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.
I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.
I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.
I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.