Top 284 Quotes by Dolly Parton

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.