Folks Quotes · Page 45

The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do…

— Steven Pinker

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

— Pete Seeger

Don't Look Down” is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis., has…

— Skylar Grey

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

— Kate Morton

Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the…

— Mark Sanford

I remember what J. Golden Kimball said when he came down to the stake where I was presiding. I introduced him as…

— Hugh B. Brown

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to…

— Shane Claiborne

Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of…

— Auberon Waugh

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

Now that I'm experiencing motherhood, I'm ready to write the next chapter of my family story. Of course a few jaded folks…

— Nia Vardalos

I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like…

— Steve Winwood

I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God,…

— Yolanda Adams

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their way, but we, poor mortals, in our present state, would probably find…

— Jerome K. Jerome

I know when the anthrax thing hit - white people, y'all was very nervous. Y'all would come up to me at work…

— Aries Spears

It's so easy for folks to normalize their opinions, to engage in a groupthink that is damaging.

— Amitava Kumar

We're bringing together the country folks and the rockers.

— Hank Williams III

Churches crack me up. They're like money, a conspiracy of faith. Like everyone agreed to believe that not only is there a…

— Karen Marie Moning

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

— Tom Hicks

I started doing some demos and got online and bought a refurbished laptop, bought a microphone off of eBay. A lot of…

— Rodney Atkins

Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use…

— F. Sionil José

North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.

— Lizz Winstead

I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward…

— Clare Vanderpool

There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to…

— Paula Deen

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative…

— Jackson Browne

Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . .…

— Hyrum W. Smith