44 Quotes by Minnie Pearl


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    Roy Acuff was the first country music star to buy a home in a fashionable section of Nashville. The real estate man said, 'Mr. Acuff, how do you plan to take care of this?' since the house was very expensive at the time. Roy said, 'Would cash be all right?'

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    So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can't be divided like that. It isn't a choice between children and animals. It's our duty to care for both. Kindness is the important thing. Kids and animals are our responsibility.

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    watch out fer these fellers around here. It ain't safe fer a pretty girl. Why, I had one just now tell me I looked like a breath of spring. Well, he didn't use them words, exactly. He said I looked like the end of a hard winter.

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    That’s what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!

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    Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don’t mind going through a little bush to get there!

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    Roy Acuff was the first country music star to buy a home in a fashionable section of Nashville. The real estate man said, ‘Mr. Acuff, how do you plan to take care of this?’ since the house was very expensive at the time. Roy said, ‘Would cash be all right?’

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    Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain’t so hot.

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