Dolly Parton Quotes

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

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

"You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on."

"Storms make trees take deeper roots."

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

"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."

"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap."

"If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked."

"Find out who you are. And do it on purpose."

"You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try."

"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."

"Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are. To me, that's what being a star means."

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

"If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul."

"God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons."

"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."

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

"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."

"People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them."

"When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids."

"When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next."

"Energy begets energy."

"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."

"Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans."

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

"I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different."

"I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be."

"I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then."

"Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out."

"I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'"