Folks Quotes · Page 55

There are black men who are madly in love with white women. God bless them, if that's what works for them. I…

— Nia Long

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking…

— Anonymous

Folks wanna be like Will I Am not Bill I Am. They wanna be like Stevie Wonder not Steve Jobs.

— will.i.am

That applies, by the way, even to some of the folks who are now [Donald] Trump supporters. They're responding to a fictional…

— Barack Obama

Well, I'm just quoting you when you [Donald Trump] were asked about a potential nuclear competition in Asia, you said, you know,…

— Hillary Clinton

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

— Dave Alvin

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is…

— Carrie Mae Weems

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

— Henry Fielding

The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front…

— George Carlin

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

— John Lydon

Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them." "Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in…

— Harper Lee

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in…

— Anonymous

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

— Anonymous

Folk Music is the map of singing.

— Alan Lomax

Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and…

— Alan Freed

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children,…

— Francis Bacon

I don't think that the folks who are in the middle look at the conversation over whether or not Donald Trump's campaign…

— Bill Burton

These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw,…

— Anne Lamott

It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who…

— Stephen King

George: [On the 'Two Virgins' cover] 'What I thought of the sleeve then was the same as I think now: it's just…

— George Harrison

I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since…

— Mark Knopfler

What happens is sometimes these congregations will still have the white style of worship, even though they're mixed, because folks are willing…

— Michael Emerson

'Fight Master' is a show that Spike came up with. Obviously, Spike has a vested interest in Bellator, which is filling a…

— Randy Couture

You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your…

— Terry Pratchett