Top 284 Quotes by Dolly Parton

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

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.'

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

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

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

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

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.