Quotes By Loretta Lynn

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead.

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have.

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.

I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

Who wants to be married to a grandfather?

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.