Folk Quotes

496 Folk quotes by 383 unique authors

Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old… — Terri Windling
I see what I want of Love... I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees suckling the wild… — Mahmoud Darwish
Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom… — A. S. Byatt
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. — Vera Nazarian
I've noticed the Fair Folk often say 'perhaps' when there is a truth they want to hide," Clary said. "It keeps you from having to… — Cassandra Clare
Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague. — Karen Chance
Repeat after me, there are the living and the dead, there are day-folk and night-folk, there are ghouls and mist-walkers, there are high hunters and… — Neil Gaiman
You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you. — Terry Pratchett
[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford. — Tamora Pierce
Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms… — Tamora Pierce
Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't… — George R. R. Martin
These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way - hence we shouldn't ever be… — Bear Grylls
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine,… — Aldo Leopold
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. — Laini Taylor
I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of… — Catherynne M. Valente
Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they… — Catherynne M. Valente
You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn’t so at all! Folk are just folk,… — Catherynne M. Valente
There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things. — J.R.R. Tolkien
He’s being held prisoner on a ceramic-lined cookie sheet in the oven,” Thomas said. “I figured he couldn’t jigger his way out of a bunch… — Jim Butcher
You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done,… — Laini Taylor
Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that… — Catherynne M. Valente
For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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