Quotes from Dolly Parton

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

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

Love is like a butterfly As soft and gentle as a sigh The multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings Love makes your heart feel strange inside It flutters like soft wings in flight Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing

It doesn't bother me when someone calls me a 'dumb blonde.' I'm neither dumb or blonde.

They got me busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest.

I know who I am; I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I am capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

Be the alligator girl. Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be. Wear your green cornflakes with pride. Snarl at the crowds, and do your best to make them flinch. Give them a quarter's worth of wonder.

In order to get to the rainbow you must be able to deal with the rain.

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

I think of country radio like a great lover: you were nice to me, you gave me a lot of cool stuff, and then you dumped my ass for another woman.

Is it easy? No it ain't Can I fix it? No I cain't But I sure ain't gonna take it lyin' down

Dark night, bright future Like the phoenix from the ashes, I shall rise again

Fate granted some people their wildest, greatest wishes while leaving the simplest pleas of others unanswered.

Sometimes you could see the scars and sometimes you couldn't. But everybody had them.

The way I see it, you've gotta put up with the rain to get a rainbow.

If you try to follow everyone else and be like everyone else, before you know it you're gone. You're not going to find yourself again; you'll just be a version of what you might have hoped to have been.

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

I've often said I don't lose my temper as much as use it. I don't do either unless I have to because I love peace and harmony, but when you step in my territory, I will call you on it.

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

She cared so much about her words, her creative expression, when what mattered to everyone else was the bottom line. Everything was a business--even art. She'd written the songs, but she wouldn't be able to truly own them. Not if she wanted the rest of the world to hear them.

We can't just hope for a brighter day, we have to work for a brighter day. Love too often gets buried in a world of hurt and fear. And we have to work to dig it out so we can share it with our family, our friends, and our neighbors.

When a girl didn't have anyone to stand up for her, that girl had to stand up for her own damn self.

the way i see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta out up with the rain~

Driven to insanity, driven to the edge Driven to the point of almost no return Driven to think awful thoughts, do awful things But at least I'd like to think I've learned I'm driven Driven to be smarter Driven to work harder Driven to be better everyday Driven to keep on and on To achieve the things I want I'll be sorry if I don't Make the most of livin' I'm driven