Top 284 Quotes by Dolly Parton

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

I think that I'm perfect.

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

It's always great to perform at home in the good ol' U.S.A.