Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
Dolly Parton.
“They think Im simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldnt I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe thats the key: simple.”
“If you dont like the road youre walking, start paving another one.”
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!”
“I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.”
“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”
“If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words”
“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond","What does?""This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.”
“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”
“True friends are like diamonds bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”
“If you have to do the work, do it well, with all your heart.”
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all...”
“Trademark yourself with the mark of excellence.”
“Maybe if we stopped trying to achieve movie standards of greatness, we'd be happy with what we have.”
“Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.”
“You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so...”