Folks Quotes · Page 34

I've actually cut my personal pay individually; we didn't vote on that, but I've done that individually. It's important that folks know…

— Steve Stivers

There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across…

— Barack Obama

Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such…

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Both bisexuality and transgender are fluid notions of identity, while lesbian and gay are fixed identities. Some people believe that means there…

— Kate Bornstein

Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my…

— Shane Claiborne

I hope [white brothers and sisters] read this book [Tears we cannot stop] and engage with it, but other white people have…

— Michael Eric Dyson

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

— Noam Chomsky

Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them…

— Orson Scott Card

Folks can look at this issue and read it and it can feel like medicine, it can feel epidemic. We wanted this…

— Ava DuVernay

Senator [Tom Cotton] got a ton of blowback. He became the star of fake missing person`s signs, encouraging folks to call if…

— Rachel Maddow

[Donald Trump] even said, well, you know, if there were nuclear war in East Asia, well, you know, that's fine have a…

— Hillary Clinton

People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who…

— Cesare Pavese

This is something I think that blues music, or folk music, and all those particular genres that have a perspective about life…

— Joan Osborne

Ninety-five percent of the work in the attorney general's office is civil litigation and regulatory work, and I think I certainly have…

— Eric Schneiderman

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

— Groucho Marx

If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy…

— Ellen Malcolm

There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too…

— Woody Guthrie

I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

“that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in…

— Jim Fergus

Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose…

— Michel de Montaigne

I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.

— Creed Bratton

We keep waiting for the American people to wake up, and they keep hitting the snooze bar. But something, folks, someday, will…

— Rush Limbaugh

It's really important that folks be able to speak out.

— Kate Brown

God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed…

— John Greenleaf Whittier