Folks Quotes · Page 40

I always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never…

— Shane Claiborne

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

— Will Rogers

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

— Jay Michaelson

I feel a lot of folks, like teenagers, can feel like outcasts.

— Dee Rees

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.

— Karen Chance

I'm having a mid-life crisis, so I thought instead of having sex with a stranger, I'd just get a new haircut. It's…

— Ed Robertson

Then you have to answer to your car owner, you have to answer to the sponsor, you have to answer to all…

— Greg Biffle

What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and…

— Lizz Wright

You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who…

— Rick Santorum

So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income…

— Barack Obama

I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where…

— Steve Martin

There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs…

— Mark Twain

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear,…

— Marie de France

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

— Mary Stewart

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble…

— Charles Stuart Calverley

History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church…

— Alfred Rosenberg

ALICE She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME And she grew so tall, She ate from a plate called TASTE ME…

— Shel Silverstein

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

— Mary Travers

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

— Shane MacGowan

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

— Barack Obama

If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those…

— Barack Obama

old folks is the nation.

— Toni Cade Bambara

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and…

— Alice Hoffman

In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that…

— Bryce Dessner