Folks Quotes
1336 Folks quotes by 922 unique authors
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Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.
— Eoin Colfer
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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses…
— Bell Hooks
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Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going…
— Margaret Mitchell
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Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
— Truman Capote
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The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and do good, love…
— Olive Ann Burns
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then…
— Barack Obama
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Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them." "Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of…
— Harper Lee
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...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I…
— Alice Walker
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And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the…
— James Herriot
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Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby,…
— Orhan Pamuk
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His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see.
— Regina Doman
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Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.
— David Mitchell
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Science,' said Mr Anders Anders. 'Science, not magic. I told you before: when things are not as they appear to be, it's because they're actually…
— Robert Rankin
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Five Great Charters knit the land Together linked, hand in hand One in the people who wear the crown Two in the folk who keep…
— Garth Nix
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There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon…
— Mark Twain
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How far I've come! I'm the same girl and yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one…
— Carol Ryrie Brink
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I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said.…
— Harper Lee
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There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead…
— Maya Angelou
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that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a…
— Jim Fergus
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