Folks Quotes

1336 Folks quotes by 922 unique authors

Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good… — Dave Barry
There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do… — Charles Baudelaire
We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors:… — William Makepeace Thackeray
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the… — Fanny Kemble
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar… — Fanny Kemble
I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to… — Steven Sater
Black folks in America are telling one party, 'We don't give a damn about you.' They're telling the other party, 'You've got our vote.' Therefore,… — Stephen A. Smith
The world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers. I even have a… — Brittany Maynard
After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for… — Marshall Brickman
As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m interested in the… — Ava DuVernay
Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and pat… — Ava DuVernay
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings. — George Bernard Shaw
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so… — Harper Lee
In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and… — Paul Robeson
Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind. — William Hazlitt
For those that have said I seemed dickish to some of the nuttier guests on Joe Rogan Questions Everything - guilty as charged. As the… — Joe Rogan
From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The… — John Greenleaf Whittier
I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or… — Jimmy Carter
I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was a… — Steve Winwood
It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to vote for them… — Gloria Steinem
I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take… — Jeff Foxworthy
As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial. — Jamie Foxx
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me. — Anatole France
The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.' — Kinky Friedman
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it… — Neil Gaiman

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