Folks Quotes

1336 Folks quotes by 922 unique authors

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition. — Mary Travers
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the… — Stephen Leacock
I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter. — Mary Lou Retton
America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't… — Bill Frist
In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into… — Major Owens
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to… — Major Owens
I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if… — Cat Stevens
There won’t be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won’t be any more white folks… — Tim Wise
I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason… — Guy Clark
There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile. — Richard Petty
Our sport is in a changing of the guard right now. It happens every 10 or 15 years, and Brad is the leader of that… — Darrell Waltrip
In Chapel Hill among a friendly folk, this old university, the first state university to open its doors, stands on a hill set in the… — Unknown Author
Christians got a lot of work to do. But, the spirit of Dorothy Day is alive. Martin Luther King is still alive. Malcolm X and… — Cornel West
The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska. — Douglas Coupland
Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And… — Tom Vilsack
Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce. — John Hoeven
Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin. That really pissed… — David Eugene Edwards
No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or… — Kelly Link
I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really… — John Prine
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But… — Richard Rohr
Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and… — Alan Freed
I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk… — Bela Fleck
Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member… — Mark Sanford
Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with… — David Rakoff
Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because… — Albert J. Nock

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