Minnie Pearl famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#God Has A Plan #Share #Plans
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
Take the back roads instead of the highways.
-- Minnie Pearl

#Back Roads #Highways
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
The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up.
-- Minnie Pearl

#Husband #Kissing #Doors
Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.
-- Minnie Pearl

#Giving #Used #Performing
Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.
-- Minnie Pearl

#Disappointment #Made #Grows
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 #Children #Laughter
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
Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
-- Minnie Pearl

#Religion #Baths #Hot
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
It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.
-- Minnie Pearl

#Style #World #Glamour
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
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
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 #Appearance #Taking Pictures
My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.
-- Minnie Pearl

#Country #Husband #Redneck
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.
-- Minnie Pearl

#Redneck #Thinking #Facts
I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then.
-- Minnie Pearl

#Redneck
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 #Telephones
Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.
-- Minnie Pearl

#Redneck #Incredibles #Heavy
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.
-- Minnie Pearl

#Stars #Redneck #Caring
That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!
-- Minnie Pearl

#Remember #Life Is #Human Nature
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

#Marriage #Water #Hot

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