Folks Quotes · Page 29

I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.

— Josh Billings

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

— Margaret Deland

So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for…

— Barack Obama

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

— Cynthia Payne

Folks dont appreciate you until you're no longer care. Life makes no sense I swear.

— Anonymous

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas…

— Matt Dillon

I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

— Sam Wyly

God must have a weird sense of values, and if there's a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He's going to have…

— Philip Appleman

Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

How far I've come! I'm the same girl and yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep…

— Carol Ryrie Brink

I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out... put myself through…

— Al Jourgensen

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know…

— Christopher Guest

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

— Anonymous

Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in…

— Maya Angelou

By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too…

— Stephen King

You know, old folks can have dreams, too, as well as young folks, and then work toward them. And to have a…

— John Glenn

I mean a global warming advocate is as wrong as anybody could be about anything, folks. It's a hoax. There is no…

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm actually the chairman of the historical foundation [in Franklin] called the Heritage Foundation in Franklin. We've got a pretty good group…

— Michael W. Smith

As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural…

— Martin Filler

Plenty more of the Nays sound perfectly sincere, though. They may genuinely dislike [Bob] Dylan; they may even enjoy or admire him,…

— David Bennun

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you…

— Bruce Barton

Economically, many folks don't feel they can afford organic. While this may be true in some cases, I think more often than…

— Woody Harrelson

You'll hear people say it's racist to test. Folks, it's racist not to test. Because guess who gets shuffled through the system…

— George W. Bush

The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in…

— Hilary Kornblith

Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.

— Barack Obama

My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.

— Barack Obama

Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.

— Milton Berle

The FCC has delayed the decision on the Time/Warner Comcast merger. So how do you think those folks like being put on…

— David Letterman

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you…

— Gloria Naylor

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we…

— Patrick Rothfuss

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

— Andrew Bird

Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

— Langston Hughes

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

— Edward Abbey

Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].

— Manning Marable

We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.

— Mildred D. Taylor

The language doesn't mean anything anymore, folks. Truth doesn't mean anything anymore.

— Rush Limbaugh

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

— George Iles

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

— Al Stewart

I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.

— Edith Wharton

My folks would have parties and all I wanted was to be the entertainment.

— Borns