Folks Quotes · Page 16

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.

— Joe Biden

We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.

— Shane Claiborne

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

— Greg Graffin

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

— Ray LaMontagne

We don't have enough folks who grew up in working class rural communities.

— Tucker Carlson

If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.

— Woody Guthrie

The folks at Curb Records didn't have respect for me and I was there for 15 years.

— Hank Williams III

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

— Edward Abbey

If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver,…

— Ronnie Lott

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

— Larry Wall

It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never…

— Zora Neale Hurston

These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave…

— Daniel H. Wilson

Why doesn't pope say to every Mexican living in America, "Go back to Mexico! That's your home! Socialism is preferable." Why does…

— Rush Limbaugh

Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose…

— Michel de Montaigne

Did you folks see President Bush's State of the Union Address? How about that surprise announcement? Howard Dean has been captured and…

— David Letterman

The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.

— Harvey Mackay

That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the…

— Benh Zeitlin

The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a…

— Rachel Maddow

Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I found me a werewolf,…

— Lauren Oliver

That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be…

— Barack Obama

When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've…

— Ian Anderson

Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book,…

— Gregory Orr

At town meetings, you can see the shy folks, the ones who have trouble sounding off in public, leaning against the back…

— Donella Meadows

I remember what J. Golden Kimball said when he came down to the stake where I was presiding. I introduced him as…

— Hugh B. Brown

A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks.

— Donald Rumsfeld

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

— Pete Seeger

I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

— Rip Torn

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.

— Norman Rockwell

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music…

— Pete Seeger

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

— Abraham Lincoln

I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that…

— Lewis Black

What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them?

— Martin Luther

If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.

— Tim Scott

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

— Anonymous

Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going…

— Shams Tabrizi

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.

— Ricky Skaggs

Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing.

— Rush Limbaugh

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

— Winston Churchill

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

— Grace Metalious

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

— Bell Hooks