Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dolly Parton

I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.

Dolly Parton

If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not.

Dolly Parton

There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.

Dolly Parton

Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and soul.

Dolly Parton

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.

Dolly Parton

I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.

Dolly Parton

A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.

Dolly Parton

I stay close to my roots and my family. I never want to forget any part of it. I'm still just a hillbilly at heart, thus a Backwoods Barbie.

Dolly Parton

I always had a very open mind and a very open heart. I always look for the good in everybody and the God in everybody. I play to that. And I just love people. I love the difference in people. I love getting to know people. I appreciate getting accepted myself, because I know I'm unusual. And I love the unusual in other people.

Dolly Parton

I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs.

Dolly Parton

There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.

Dino De Laurentiis

I always say my age is connected with three Cs. In here, cuore, which means the heart. Up here, cervello, which is the brain. And, of course, down here: the coglioni. I no feel my age, I tell you.

Dinah Shore

I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.

Dick Francis

A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.

Dick Gephardt

Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.

Dick Morris

How, voters will ask, can we cover 50 million new people without any new doctors or nurses? The answer is to ration health care, with the U.S. government deciding whom will get hip and knee replacements, heart bypass surgery and all manner of medical treatments. And what does rationing mean? It means that the elderly will be denied care, which they can now get whenever they want it.

Desmond Tutu

There’s no question about the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering, but at the center of this existence is a heart beating with love. That you and I and all of us are incredible. I mean, we really are remarkable things. That we are, as a matter of fact, made for goodness.

Desmond Tutu

Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.

Derek Walcott

Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

Derek Walcott

Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

Derek Luke

When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.

Deepak Chopra

From a pure heart anything can be accomplished. If you ask what the universe is doing, it is eavesdropping on your every desire.

Deepak Chopra

The intention behind our giving and receiving is the most important thing. When the act of giving is joyful, when it is unconditional and from the heart, then the energy behind the giving increases many times over. But if we give grudgingly, there is no energy behind that giving. If we feel we have lost something through the act of giving, then the gift is not truly given and will not cause increase.

Deepak Chopra

We transform our relationships when we listen with our ears, hearts, and souls.

Deepak Chopra

There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally.

Debbie Gibson

Think with your heart, speak with your soul.

Debbie Macomber

But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself and she had - her heart.

Debbie Macomber

Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.

Debbi Fields

We are here for a reason. We all have a gift or gifts to share. You want to look inside your heart and your soul, and you want to tap into the one thing you love to do. Develop it. Share it. Nurture it. You were meant to have that gift.

Dean Karnazes

As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?... There'll likely be a point of diminishing returns, a point where my strength will begin to wane. Until then, I'll just keep plodding onward, putting one foot in front of the other to the best of my ability. Smiling the entire time.

Debby Boone

We all have such common ways to identify with each other, and I think when you approach music in that organic way, it's almost indescribable how it connects human to human and heart to heart.

Debi Thomas

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

Alphonsus Liguori

Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God.