Dolly Parton
We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.Collection: Philosophy
I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.Collection: Praying
To me it's a two-way street. They're good to me, and I'm good to them. It's a natural thing for me to love people, and I think people sense it. ... I am secure with the kind of person I am. I don't feel like I'm better than anyone, but I'm just as good as anyone.Collection: Thinking
I think everyone should be with who they love. I don't want to be controversial or stir up a bunch of trouble but people are going to love who they are going to love. I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals. Ha ha ha!Collection: Couple
The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.Collection: Writing
I often get myself in love trouble because I'm so passionate; I love so much and so deep.Collection: Passionate
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. We will always remember her fondly.Collection: Country
If I see something sagging, dragging and bagging, I’ll get it nip, tucked, sucked or plucked.Collection: Sagging
If people think I'm a dumb blonde, because of the way I look, then they're dumber than they think I am. If people think I'm not very deep because of my wigs and outfits, then they're not very deep.Collection: Thinking
Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.Collection: Family
I love bald men. Just because you've lost your fuzz don't mean you ain't a peach.Collection: Funny
It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I first started doing it. It still comes from a serious place inside of me. I get up in the morning, and I think I just look better a certain way I do my makeup. I want to shine, I want to glitter. I'm not getting up thinking, "Oh, this'll get 'em." And I'm not doing it to make a statement. I'm just doing it to look like Dolly - the Dolly that I know and the Dolly that you know.Collection: Morning
Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for everything I've got.Collection: Beautiful
It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life.Collection: Giving
If I have one more facelift I'll have a beard!Collection: Beard
Love is only as strong as your weakest moment.Collection: Love
My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.Collection: Jobs
After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over. I’ll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I’ve done that in my past, and I’d do it again.Collection: Past
I do have big tits. Always had 'em - pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've made a fortune with 'em.Collection: Fun
As a songwriter, you're allowed to write anything, and as a person, I am all colors in the rainbow. I've been through everything, you know, so I can write a positive song like 'Better Get to Livin'' because that's my attitude. But that doesn't mean I'm happy all the time. You can't be a deep and serious songwriter without feelings. You kinda have to live with your feelings out on your sleeve and get hurt more than most people. The fear I might get hurt means I might not be able to write another song.Collection: Song
In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.Collection: Song
Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.Collection: Motivational
Wildflowers don’t care where they grow.Collection: Flower
I’m just a simple country girl.Collection: Country
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next. Find out who you are and do it on purpose.Collection: Rain
Don’t lose your temper; use it.Collection: Anger
Don’t judge me by the cover, ’cause I’m a real good book.Collection: Book
I don’t listen to music for fun. I ain’t got enough time for fun! I’m always busy writing my own music. I don’t try to compete or see what other people are doing.Collection: Fun
I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.Collection: Stories
My boobs are fake, my hair’s fake but what is real is my voice and my heart.Collection: Real
I may look fake but I’m real where it counts.Collection: Country
I always loved books. I don’t remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.Collection: Book
I just can’t stand to look plain, ’cause that don’t fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I’m very real on the inside.Collection: Real
It’s almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Book
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: Book
They say somebody’s ‘street smart.’ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.Collection: Country
I’m not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there’s a little magic in the fact that I’m so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Book
Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I’ve written, are stories driven by characters.Collection: Country
I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.Collection: Country
I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.Collection: Book
I sing as an actress. Whatever I’m singing about, I just become the story.Collection: Stories
My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn’t have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.Collection: Country
There’s a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.Collection: Country