Quotes from Dolly Parton

In order to get to the rainbow you must be able to deal with the rain.

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

The way I see it, you've gotta put up with the rain to get a rainbow.

If you try to follow everyone else and be like everyone else, before you know it you're gone. You're not going to find yourself again; you'll just be a version of what you might have hoped to have been.

A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?

If I can hold God's attention, I can hold the world's..

We can't just hope for a brighter day, we have to work for a brighter day. Love too often gets buried in a world of hurt and fear. And we have to work to dig it out so we can share it with our family, our friends, and our neighbors.

The way I see it, if you want a rainbow you have to put up with the rain.

You don't even have to believe in anything to be good to people. You should just know you should be a good human being.

Get down off 'at cross; Somebody needs the wood!

I look back on all that now, and I realize this helped to build my character. It helped me build my own strength. So even the bad times were good. There were good times as well as bad times. But that's how memories are made, and that's why I'm sitting here today.

It's like a battery that has to have a positive and a negative. One doesn't work without the other. You've gotta have the good and the bad in order to know what's right, and in order to know what's real and what ain't.