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 didnt even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then. – Dolly Parton
I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say. – Dolly Parton
Im gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell em out of the trunk of my car. Im that kind of musician and singer. – Dolly Parton
Stop this attitude that older people aint any good anymore! Were as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good. – Dolly Parton
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there; but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page. – Ralph Waldo Emerson