Dixie Carter Quotes

#1. Dixie Carter was a goddess. The kind of wife and mother that every mother hopes their daughter will become and the kind of friend that is absolutely irreplaceable. She loved fiercely and was adored in return.

Annie Potts

#2. I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.

Jean Smart

#3. I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.

Dixie Carter

#4. It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.

Dixie Carter

#5. With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever.

Dixie Carter

#6. Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

Mason Cooley

#7. I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#8. Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

Dixie Carter

#9. Everyone's life is a warfare, and that long and various.

Epictetus

#10. I have never known how to say goodbye. It is a failing that has been with me all of my life. It's especially problematic, given how often partings have come up.

Kristin Hannah

#11. Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.

Dixie Carter

#12. And you can't find "love" because in order to find "love" you have to be capable of dishing it out. In order to be capable of giving "love", your own life has to be in harmony with everything else, and that's not attainable ...

Jacque Fresco

#13. I like exercise. I like a healthy body.

Erin Gray

#14. My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.

Dixie Carter

#15. The show was written just for us. We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest.

Dixie Carter

#16. We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.

Dixie Carter

#17. I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state.

Dixie Carter

#18. I actually performed at an orthodox Jewish wedding, where the men were separated from the women, but they both came together to not enjoy what I was talking about.

Andy Kindler

#19. People are afraid to think, or they don't know how. They fail to realize that, while emotions can't be suppressed, the mind can be strengthened. All over the world people are seeking peace of mind, but there can be no peace of mind without strength of mind.

Eric Gutkind

#20. Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.

Dixie Carter

#21. I try to stick to one, single rule, "If you don't have anything to say, shut the fuck up." I think that's in the Bible or something.

Christopher Moore

#22. You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.

Dixie Carter

#23. It's time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

Arnold Schwarzenegger