Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.
If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
Fill your heart with as much love as you can, and don't hold it in.
You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.
That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.
After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.
Opinions are like orgasms. . . mine matters most and I really don't care if you have one.
Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel.
I always played the ugly sister instead of Cinderella or the Wicked Witch. But those are the parts I love, and actually, to be a character actress, you have more longevity, hopefully.