Folks Quotes

1336 Folks quotes by 922 unique authors

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s. — Carly Simon
From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes. — Marilyn Manson
Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want… — Dar Williams
One kid said to me, he said, Mr. Lloyd, we really owe you. And I explained to him, man, you owe me absolutely nothing. I… — Earl Lloyd
If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each… — Kevin Rudd
Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look… — Bob Torres
My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table. — Seth Gordon
If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you… — Ellen Malcolm
I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a… — Mitchell Zuckoff
Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion. — Herbert Gold
I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week. — Cynthia Payne
I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. — Black Francis
Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options. — Henry Hampton
My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win. — Tom Hicks
Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching them… — Wilfred Trotter
On the road of life... Meet people where they are, Accept who they are. And there are some folks that you need to leave where… — Denise Linn
When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's… — Sarah Louise Delany
When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back, and I'd say,… — Willie Nelson
Norman, Okla. That's where my folks live, so it's home to me. — Kristin Chenoweth
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots. — George Eliot
If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can… — Johnnetta B. Cole
And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen. — William Shakespeare
In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid — William Shakespeare
For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do… — Martin Luther

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