Folks Quotes

1336 Folks quotes by 922 unique authors

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause… — Kendrick Lamar
In Hollywood, story content of movies follows a hierarchy of power, not the relative quality of various ideas. Hollywood does not lack for quality writing.… — Terry Rossio
I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety,… — Frederic Chopin
America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew… — Pat Buchanan
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who… — Catherynne M. Valente
Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra… — Harper Lee
The dance, like most dances after supper, was a merry one; some of the older folks joined in it, and the squire himself figured down… — Washington Irving
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. — Brownie McGhee
Have a plan. Follow the plan, and you'll be surprised how successful you can be. Most people don't have a plan. That's why it's easy… — Bear Bryant
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get… — Christopher Dawson
I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know… — Bill Hicks
That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all, the privileges of… — Margaret Thatcher
The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could. — Joan of Arc
In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early… — Benjamin E. Mays
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical… — Bela Bartok
The situation in this country is like a dog with worms. You bring the dog to the vet to be dewormed, but the vet is… — Neal Boortz
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of… — Glen Cook
The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him,… — James F. Cooper
We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing. If I feel good about… — BrenÃ© Brown
Obviously in the Senate we have all types of different people, all kinds of different folks that have come from all types of different backgrounds—and… — Mark Pryor
Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind. — Terry McMillan
As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites. — August Wilson
Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to… — Auberon Waugh
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or… — James Kelman
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child — Stephen Stills

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