Folks Quotes · Page 16

I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.

— Martin Firrell

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

— Eugene Chadbourne

Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you

— Leyla Zana

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

— Paul Mooney

I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the…

— Vera Farmiga

As I tell all our folks, the only reason we exist - make no mistake - is our clients.

— Ginni Rometty

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

— William Butler Yeats

My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them.

— Alison Eastwood

This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna…

— Neil Gaiman

When youve worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.…

— Michelle Obama

I walked in on my folks doing it doggy style less than four hours ago." "Waitress!" Jonas screamed, clicking his fingers madly.…

— MaryJanice Davidson

People think cruises are for old folk, but they are amazing, as you get to see so many places, and you're never…

— Alan Titchmarsh

I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors -…

— Esther Dyson

I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I…

— Dar Williams

Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men…

— Francesco Guicciardini

I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where…

— Steve Martin

A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes…

— Fanny Kemble

And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio,…

— James Herriot

I think people get so frustrated with Washington, D.C.That's why they're so angry with the - the electorate is so angry with…

— Chris Christie

Along with reading as much as I could about Andy, several of the real folks came in besides Andy [Hertzfeld] - Joanna…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

In Asia we face an ambitious and aggressive China, but we have the will and we have the strength to help our…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Folks, folks, we want to end Obamacare, we want to go to a plan that's so much better and so much less…

— Donald Trump

You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close…

— Gail Ann Dorsey

The dirty little secret, folks, is Obama is not only for occupying Wall Street. He also wants to occupy Main Street.

— Rush Limbaugh

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

— Linn Ullmann

Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall…

— William Hazlitt

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

— Jonathan Swift

The Word says God don't give us credit for lovin the folks we want to love anyway. No, He gives us credit…

— Denver Moore

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

— Pete Seeger

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

— Tom Hicks

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

— Piers Anthony

Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other.

— Margaret Walker

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.

— Karen Chance

My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's…

— Derrick Bell

Believe me, folks, I've been saying it for a long time. The system, the whole system is rigged.

— Donald Trump

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

— Anonymous

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks…

— Susan Rice

I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing…

— Muhammad Ali

America has become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.

— Karl Rove