Folks Quotes · Page 46

My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got…

— Satchel Paige

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure…

— Hart Crane

[...] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. [...] black folks kill more black folks than the…

— Michael Nutter

Other countries have been taking advantage of America for decades - decades, and decades, and decades, folks. And we're not going to…

— Donald Trump

In the middle of a conversation, she'll frequently say something like, "Young people are heartless, they don't have any respect anymore." I…

— Susanna Tamaro

As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.

— Benjamin Franklin

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

— Mary Travers

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It…

— Kurt Vonnegut

After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that…

— Marshall Brickman

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

— Lonnie Donegan

Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also…

— Paul Zollo

Debt is so ingrained into our culture that most Americans can't even envision a car without a payment ... a house without…

— Dave Ramsey

If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still…

— Cornel West

That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go.…

— Earl Scruggs

Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with…

— Pete Seeger

Today, folks, should be all about love. Unless you're old.

— Stephen Colbert

Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because…

— George Eliot

And also, folks live in a regular world, so when they come to our show [Aladdin], we want to take that away…

— James Monroe Iglehart

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be…

— Joan Baez

Hillary Clinton is a disaster, folks. She has bad judgment. That was said by Bernie Sanders. He's given me a lot of…

— Donald Trump

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

— Barack Obama

I'm tired of cookie-cutter monolithic representation of black folks.

— Orlando Jones

The dirty little secret, folks, is Obama is not only for occupying Wall Street. He also wants to occupy Main Street.

— Rush Limbaugh

Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as…

— Anonymous

We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to work is…

— Jodi Rell