After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
Dolly PartonRead
Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.
Interpretation
Time inevitably changes us, and the passage of time is reflected in our appearance and lives.
This quote by Dolly Parton reflects the universal truth that as time passes, it leaves its marks on us, both physically and emotionally. It serves as a reminder of the inevitability of aging and the need to embrace the changes that come with it, rather than resist them, highlighting the relationship between time and the human experience.
In practice
During a toast at a family gathering, to reflect on how we all change over the years.
After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.
A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.
The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.
I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master
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