Folks Quotes

1336 Folks quotes by 922 unique authors

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that,… — James Payn
I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't. — Frank Howard Clark
Earth shall be fair, and all her folk be one! — Clifford Bax
Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation, of course, is… — Jonathan Clements
Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at… — Gavyn Davies
I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it...I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either. Nor women, Fabians,… — Herbert
Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound traditional around the… — Mike Harding
Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing… — Raquel Cepeda
I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost… — Rick Danko
We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads… — Nikola Tesla
I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are. From their vantage… — Michelle Shocked
We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and… — Mark E. Smith
That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home… — Robyn Davidson
When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of… — Arlene Croce
Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and… — Duane G. Carey
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet. — E. V. Lucas
Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another. — Sivananda
People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because… — Idries Shah
White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there. — Unknown Author
That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to… — Benh Zeitlin
We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were singing strictly gospel,… — Mavis Staples
Damn flowers. Nice kids, the ones who skated out and gave us them. But the flowers, the stem fell off. I stepped right on it… — Phil Esposito
I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who… — Ernest Gellner
Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite. — Norman Rockwell
The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens… — Arthur Miller

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