Folks Quotes · Page 21

Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.

— Alice Hegan Rice

Democrats, folks, only have five states where they have the governorship and the state legislature.

— Rush Limbaugh

If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.

— J. I. Packer

Beef is not what Jay said to Nas; Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.

— Mos Def

My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help…

— Pete Seeger

“If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.”

— Mark Twain

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

There's no doubt that many of the mainstream white institutions tend to be cosmetic and symbolic when it comes to including African-Americans,…

— Cornel West

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family…

— Shane Claiborne

All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell.…

— Paul Broun

Being attentive to inequality and not tone deaf to it. But offering prescriptions that are actually going to help folks in communities…

— Barack Obama

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very…

— Renee Fleming

Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons - these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world - it seemed to…

— Cassandra Clare

Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That…

— Rose Fyleman

What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for,…

— Honore de Balzac

Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it…

— Maud Lindsay

Whether it's your own material or somebody else's material, it's essential that you identify with it thoroughly. It's like you want to…

— Paul Stookey

Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't…

— Hari Kondabolu

My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for…

— Antonio Banderas

The Factor concept is very simple: Watch all of those in power, including and especially the media, so they don't injure or…

— Bill O'Reilly

Football is the kind of game where you have to really segregate kids from the general population and kind of colonize their…

— Steve Almond

There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this…

— Nancy Werlin

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

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

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

— Dave Alvin

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

— Billy Connolly

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

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

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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