Folks Quotes · Page 89

America has become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.

— Karl Rove

Damn flowers. Nice kids, the ones who skated out and gave us them. But the flowers, the stem fell off. I stepped…

— Phil Esposito

The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition…

— Major Owens

I want a strong border. I do want a wall. Walls do work, you just have to speak to the folks in…

— Donald Trump

With the help of folks like you and me, Heifer International tackles the problem of hunger one family at a time with…

— Susan Sarandon

There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some…

— Paul Weller

Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no…

— Chuck D

I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.

— Cass McCombs

I always had a hard time with Nashville. I reluctantly live there. I've mellowed, and it's improved some, in the fact it…

— Steve Young

I got to talk to people like Mel [Lewis] and Milt Hilton and Benny Carter and Clark Terry and... Jay McShann. I…

— Jon Gordon

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I figure that I'm always going to be fine, one way or another, but I do worry about other people who have…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And…

— John Steinbeck

Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it…

— Spencer W. Kimball

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

— Edward Abbey

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted…

— Nella Larsen

Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil…

— Vicki Sue Robinson

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write…

— Homer Hickam

Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a…

— David Baldacci

Some folks of cider make a rout And cider's well enough no doubt When better liquors fail; But wine, that's richer, better…

— John Gay

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

— Van Morrison

I think I was able to talk to people about values in ways that people - in ways that resonated with folks.

— Barack Obama

Now there's going to be some decisions [Donald Trump] is going to have to make as president regarding those folks, and I…

— Chris Christie

We're supposed to forget whatever happened in the past because 9/11 is where history begins. Okay, since 2001, how many wars have…

— Arundhati Roy