Folks Quotes · Page 22

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

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

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

We [people] need to stop lumping folks together and start living together. Otherwise, we're going to kill each other off because you…

— Jeremiah Wright

I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music…

— Zach Anner

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of…

— Barry Ritholtz

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my…

— Salma Hayek

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain…

— Alan Hirsch

Women and children were slaughtered by the Taliban. You are going to sit down and negotiate with these folks? They never lived…

— Mike Rogers

Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in…

— Bela Bartok

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure…

— Hart Crane

To see the way that [my mother] held our family together after my dad passed away, and then went to college after…

— Mike Pence

Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the…

— Margaret Mitchell

Sometimes when these kinds of things happen, it can seem a little bit too much to bear. But what I want the…

— Barack Obama

Frankly, the president, during the first opportunity I had to be in a Cabinet meeting, before we started the meeting, he said,…

— John Ashcroft

I do not favor or support, nor will I vote for, a pathway to citizenship for people that are here who've broken…

— Matt Salmon

My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like…

— Bruce Springsteen

I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him .…

— Bob Dylan

For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes…

— Jason Isbell

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

— Sam Walton

Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling…

— Tucker Carlson

The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk

— Nelson Mandela

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

— Jay Michaelson

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of…

— Alice Walker

In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks...MACHINE-GUN BACON.

— Ted Cruz

Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

— Orson Scott Card

Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.

— Bernard Lown

I believe if the viewing of slaughter was required to eat meat, most folks would become vegetarians.

— Howard Lyman

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.

— Michael Caine

Don't be shy about believing in your ideas - even if folks around you think you're crazy.

— Tim Westergren

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

— Samuel Richardson

She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.

— David Foster Wallace

“Folks can't take advantage of you if you're doing what you want to.”

— Sarah Delany

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

— Anton Chekhov

I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?

— Bobby Cannavale