Folk Quotes

496 Folk quotes by 383 unique authors

But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs,… — Robin Hobb
Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put a stopper in… — Tamora Pierce
How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a… — Anne Lamott
Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I found me a werewolf, a nasty old… — Lauren Oliver
These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for… — Anne Lamott
Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers… — Robert Jordan
Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization… — W. E. B. Du Bois
The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no… — Beatrix Potter
Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea — J.R.R. Tolkien
I hate what you represent." ... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the… — Jim Butcher
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories… — Angela Carter
Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve. — Stephen King
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact… — Kurt Vonnegut
...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of… — Nikolai Gogol
Tabitha blinked innocently. "Why is your consort speaking to me without my having addressed him first?" she asked Kaia. "Have you not taught him the… — Gena Showalter
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned… — Henry Jenkins
The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. — Kate Morton
But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have… — Philip Pullman
Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows… — Terry Pratchett
Everyone is afraid of you and when folk are afraid of a person it usually means the person is cruel in some way, and I… — Catherynne M. Valente
The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had… — George R. R. Martin
I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, "You just haven't met the… — Tina Fey
But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I… — Robert A. Heinlein
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That… — J.R.R. Tolkien

Who Wrote These Folk Quotes

383 authors contributed a total of 496 Folk Quotes, led by these top contributors: