Barbara Mandrell Quotes

• I believe if you ask any singer who was the greatest country music singer of all time, they would say 'George Jones'. He was without question and by far the BEST! I first met and worked with him when I was 13 years old; I am so very grateful that he was my friend.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Country, Believe, Grateful

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• If we don't help each other, who will?

  Barbara Mandrell

  Helping, Abiding Love, Helping Each Other

  Barbara Mandrell, George Vecsey (1991). “Get to the Heart: My Story”, Bantam Books

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• I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Good Life, Believe, Feet

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• I was country when country wasn't cool.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Country, Expression

  Song: I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool, Album: Barbara Mandrell Live

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• I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Tomorrow, Bigs, Exciting

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Two, Exciting, Shows

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Caring, People, Faults

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• That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Tomorrow, Given, Exciting

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Doors, Exciting, Exciting Life

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• The only crying shame about it is, when good things happen to you, you run short of time. It takes the same amount of time, however, to tell people, 'It's good to see you again. I'm sorry we only have a minute to talk,' as it does to say, 'I don't have time to talk with you' period.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Running, Sorry, People

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• I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, silk flowers and things.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Girly, Silly, Flower

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• By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Fathers Day, Hurt, Couple

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.

  Barbara Mandrell

  School, Hockey, Years

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Married, but not to each other.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Infidelity, Married, Adultery

  Song: Married But Not to Each Other

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• It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Injury, Head Injuries, Whole Family

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• I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Momma

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Years, November, Retired

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• I think it was 37 years that I did music.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Thinking, Years

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Journey, East, Cash

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