"My husband and I had to raise..." - Quote by Dolly Parton
My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
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“You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.”
“When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording.”
“The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.”
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“I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved - to teach it, probably, Language has always fascinated me. There's a genetic inheritance there a good language gene, which I inherited [from my mother and grandfather] and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her.”
“A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.”
“No matter how old you get, hug and kiss your mother whenever you greet her.”
More on Responsibility
“The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.”
“Let us ask ourselves, 'What kind of people do we think we are?' And let us answer, 'Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.'”
“A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.”