Quotes By Dolly Parton

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

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.

I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

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

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

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.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

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

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

I was always a junk food person, still am.

I think that I'm perfect.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

I've been very fortunate.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

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

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

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

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

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

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

I can't do nothing just a little.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

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.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.

A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.

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.