Folks Quotes · Page 28

The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.

— Douglas Coupland

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are…

— Stokely Carmichael

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.

— Vita Sackville-West

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

— Brownie McGhee

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

— Harper Lee

“Folks, we don’t have time to be difficult! Take an honest look at yourself.”

— Beth Beutler

Folks, tomorrow America will get to hear those four words we've been waiting for: "Former president George Bush".

— Jay Leno

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

— Anonymous

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk…

— Joanna Newsom

Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back…

— John Sharp

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like…

— John Lennon

We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t…

— Jerry Brown

One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world…

— Steve Winwood

There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the…

— Barack Obama

People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and…

— Natasha Bedingfield

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep.…

— Lillian Gordy Carter

I'm gonna say it one more time. We are Georgia Southern. Our colors are blue and white. We call ourselves the Bald…

— Erk Russell

You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of…

— Israel Zangwill

Cyber attacks from foreign governments, especially China, Russia, North Korea along with non-state terrorist actors and organized criminal groups constitute one of…

— Donald Trump

Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to…

— James Kelman

I say that is because those are the times where sometimes you feel actually a little bit hurt. Because you feel like…

— Barack Obama

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass,…

— Anonymous

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true…

— Maya Angelou

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you…

— Chuck Palahniuk

America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.

— Dick Gregory

After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.

— Martin Luther

By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you…

— Lizz Winstead

Seeing a black transgender woman embracing and loving everything about herself might be inspiring to some other folks.

— Laverne Cox

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.

— Sxip Shirey

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

— Neil Diamond

“Majority of folks out there are trying to make a difference. Don't just make a difference; become the difference!”

— Ogwo David Emenike

The folks in this counrty need somebody that will stand up for them.

— Nina Turner

Remember, we're competing in a rigged election [2016]. This is a rigged election, folks.

— Donald Trump

No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses!

— Moby

I don't want you folks to do a lot of talking. Just shut up and get out of the way.

— Barack Obama

The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

— Groucho Marx

When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at.

— Joel Chandler Harris

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

— Bear Grylls

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein