Folks Quotes

1336 Folks quotes by 922 unique authors

If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when I was a… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Even being a Jedi is something where you look for more. At first you acted as if Jedi was synonymous with hero. It isn't. Being… — Michael A. Stackpole
These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for… — Anne Lamott
Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers… — Robert Jordan
Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one… — Louis L'Amour
Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection? — Lucy Maud Montgomery
There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no… — Beatrix Potter
Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea — J.R.R. Tolkien
My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and kept trying to… — Charlaine Harris
I hate what you represent." ... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the… — Jim Butcher
The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need… — Thomas Friedman
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories… — Angela Carter
Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve. — Stephen King
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact… — Kurt Vonnegut
Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the… — Stephen King
...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of… — Nikolai Gogol
Tabitha blinked innocently. "Why is your consort speaking to me without my having addressed him first?" she asked Kaia. "Have you not taught him the… — Gena Showalter
But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists. — Kate Morton
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned… — Henry Jenkins
This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk. — Patrick Rothfuss
The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. — Kate Morton
But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have… — Philip Pullman

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