Dolly Parton Quotes

I love traveling all over the world but it's true: there's nothing like home.

I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise ...

I'm trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these won...

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all t...

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' wor...

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that k...

I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a fa...

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'...

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and ...

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.

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

A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

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

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a ba...

I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot...

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all ha...

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my ma...

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something...

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they sa...

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

I was always a junk food person, still am.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I also know that...

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid,...

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got t...

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

If I can hold God's attention, I can hold the world's..

The doc swore she came out screamin' in the key of E.

They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything ...

I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a go...

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else...

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

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to pl...

If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken...

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music ...

Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several,...

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Do...

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become m...

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French ...

Cause I am strong and I can prove itAnd I got my dreams to see me throughIt's just a mountain, I can...

The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper,...

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are...

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' wor...

I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that ...

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we e...

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be help...

I walk tall I got a tall attitude.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never h...

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.