Dixie Carter Quotes

"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."

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

"What a great relief not to try so hard to be pleasing in one`s life. At one time it used to matter to me if I were attractive to people. I tried to be pretty and tried all those products on the commercials, and all the magazine beauty hints."

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.

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.

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.

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.

I was born in a town of 200 people - it`s 300 now, it`s really grown - halfway between Memphis and Nashville, really the backside of nowhere.

I will not do humor that is derived from private parts or going to the bathroom. I won`t do anything that involves making fun of people.