Folk Quotes

496 Folk quotes by 383 unique authors

Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition.… — Hyrum W. Smith
Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition.… — Hyrum W. Smith
The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told… — Jamake Highwater
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite. — Baron de Montesquieu
One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms… — Judith Martin
They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's… — Alice Hoffman
Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk. — Ray Stannard Baker
There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both. — Unknown Author
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references. — Carlisle Floyd
What I see here, what I feel here is that people in your world believe spirituality isn't distant. It's close and real. Religion seems born… — Barbara Cameron
Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love. — Cornel West
Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has… — Thurston Moore
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection.… — Cornel West
Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men come and go… — Colin Jordan
Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We… — Rose Fyleman
The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the… — Hugh Jackman
I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like… — Gene Robinson
You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of… — Rafael Sabatini
My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist… — Winston Churchill
We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise. — Scott Putesky
Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a… — John Wayne
The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk — Nelson Mandela
Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels… — Gerard Manley Hopkins

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