Folks Quotes · Page 82

In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too,…

— Mohsin Hamid

Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, . .…

— Shel Silverstein

If we begin by the conversation that some people shouldn't be encouraged to come to the polls, that does nothing to help…

— Marc Lamont Hill

my face I don't mind it, Because I'm behind it-- 'Tis the folks in the front that I jar.

— Anthony Euwer

That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks…

— Barack Obama

I read my web blogs, my tech blogs, it's highly educational, folks.

— Rush Limbaugh

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

— William Butler Yeats

These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave…

— Daniel H. Wilson

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

— Cass McCombs

I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.

— Nikki Giovanni

There is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally…

— Chelsea Manning

There is no way I’m going out in public like this!” It seemed while I was being tormented at the salon, Bones…

— Jeaniene Frost

I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are.…

— Michelle Shocked

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the…

— Mo Yan

The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more…

— Michael Musto

When you're out of work and you can't buy a home or you've lost your home and you're worried about paying your…

— Barack Obama

My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly…

— Dorothy Parker

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of…

— Margaret Deland

I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.

— Ray LaMontagne

John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.

— Harvey Gantt

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music…

— Van Morrison

And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio,…

— James Herriot

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

— Mos Def

In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had…

— Benjamin E. Mays