Folks Quotes · Page 17

The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some…

— Oprah Winfrey

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

— Denis Leary

Smoking is definitely not cool anymore, and the folks who have worked against that have done a great job.

— Tarana Burke

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

— Loretta Lynn

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

— Billy Connolly

I love reality shows. The folks who dream up some of these concepts are either geniuses, or totally stoned.

— Carl Hiaasen

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

— Tom Robbins

Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.

— Josephine Lawrence

Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan…

— Stephen King

Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So…

— Pete Seeger

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know…

— Jerry Saltz

Comedians have varying levels of training. It can range from classically trained actors (like Robin Williams) to people who took comedy classes…

— Ted Alexandro

Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part…

— William Greider

Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier…

— Barack Obama

If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth…

— Barack Obama

I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image…

— Donnie Wahlberg

Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's…

— Orson Scott Card

Folks working late, I had a babysitter. I ain't about to sit here and name her. I was almost 8 when she…

— LeCrae

It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant…

— Pete Seeger

It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light…

— Rush Limbaugh

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born…

— Louis L'Amour

If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit…

— Barack Obama

What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the…

— Seth Godin

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

— Dave Alvin

I had a couple of Asian readers and other folks tell me, "Oh, you have a lot of sex in your writing."

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

— Anonymous

Hillary Clinton is a disaster, folks. She has bad judgment. That was said by Bernie Sanders. He's given me a lot of…

— Donald Trump

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

— Marcus Aurelius

Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.'

— John F. Kerry

Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto…

— Stevie Wonder

Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.

— Anonymous

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there…

— Neil Gaiman

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble…

— Charles Stuart Calverley

“in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.”

— Kate Morton

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

— William Faulkner

North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.

— Lizz Winstead

Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me.

— Sherman Alexie

“Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had,”

— Anonymous

When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my…

— Bret Harte