How do you measure your value?

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

You're the reason our kids are ugly.

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.

You have to be different, great or first.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

I want more out of life than I've gotten.

Who wants to be married to a grandfather?

You have to be the first, best or different.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.

I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.

I think I reach people because I'm with them, not apart from them.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it's none of their business!

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?

Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.

I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.

The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.

I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

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