934 Quotes by Dolly Parton

We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you forget all about [their looks].

Love is only as strong as your weakest moment.

It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I first started doing it. It still comes from a serious place inside of me. I get up in the morning, and I think I just look better a certain way I do my makeup. I want to shine, I want to glitter. I'm not getting up thinking, "Oh, this'll get 'em." And I'm not doing it to make a statement. I'm just doing it to look like Dolly - the Dolly that I know and the Dolly that you know.

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love.

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

We could afford the price of peace. Love is all it costs.

I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.