Minnie Pearl Quotes

• watch out fer these fellers around here. It ain't safe fer a pretty girl. Why, I had one just now tell me I looked like a breath of spring. Well, he didn't use them words, exactly. He said I looked like the end of a hard winter.

  Minnie Pearl

  Girl, Spring, Winter

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• The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up.

  Minnie Pearl

  Husband, Kissing, Doctors

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• God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

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  God Has A Plan, Share, Plans

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• Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

  Minnie Pearl

  Wedding, Religion, Hot

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• That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!

  Minnie Pearl

  Remember, Life Is, Human Nature

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• So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can't be divided like that. It isn't a choice between children and animals. It's our duty to care for both. Kindness is the important thing. Kids and animals are our responsibility.

  Minnie Pearl

  Children, Kindness, Kids

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• Take the back roads instead of the highways.

  Minnie Pearl

  Travel, Back Roads, Highways

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• Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!

  Minnie Pearl

  Kissing, Men, Mind

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• Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

  Minnie Pearl

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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• Roy Acuff was the first country music star to buy a home in a fashionable section of Nashville. The real estate man said, 'Mr. Acuff, how do you plan to take care of this?' since the house was very expensive at the time. Roy said, 'Would cash be all right?'

  Minnie Pearl

  Country, Stars, Real

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• My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.

  Minnie Pearl

  Country, Husband, Redneck

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• Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so full of laughter and joy, I associate the two. Even my concept of Jesus goes along with this association of happiness and religion.

  Minnie Pearl

  Jesus, Laughter, Children

  Minnie Pearl, Joan Dew (1981). “Minnie Pearl: An Autobiography”, New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks

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• I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.

  Minnie Pearl

  Thinking, Live For Today, Fans

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• Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.

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  Disappointment, Made, Shows

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• Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone.

  Minnie Pearl

  Redneck, Talking, Breakfast

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• Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.

  Minnie Pearl

  Redneck, Hospitality, Incredibles

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• Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.

  Minnie Pearl

  Giving, Used, Performing

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• Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts.

  Minnie Pearl

  Missing You, Thinking, Order

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• It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.

  Minnie Pearl

  Style, World, Glamour

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• I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them.

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  Redneck, Thinking, Facts

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• I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.

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  Stars, Redneck, Caring

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• When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.

  Minnie Pearl

  Police, Trying, Village

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• We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.

  Minnie Pearl

  Pregnancy, Boys, Men

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• I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then.

  Minnie Pearl

  Redneck, Courses

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• They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse.

  Minnie Pearl

  Doors, Taking Pictures, Appearance

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