Folks Quotes

1336 Folks quotes by 922 unique authors

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t. — Chuck Palahniuk
You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then. — Patricia C. Wrede
This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It… — Joel Salatin
The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear… — Joel Salatin
I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per… — Joel Salatin
Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows… — Terry Pratchett
Everyone is afraid of you and when folk are afraid of a person it usually means the person is cruel in some way, and I… — Catherynne M. Valente
As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had… — George R. R. Martin
Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room. — Esi Edugyan
I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, "You just haven't met the… — Tina Fey
I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to… — Emma Donoghue
But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I… — Robert A. Heinlein
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? — Eleanor Porter
Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old… — Terri Windling
I see what I want of Love... I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees suckling the wild… — Mahmoud Darwish
Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom… — A. S. Byatt
What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get… — Tyler Perry
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. — Vera Nazarian
These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
I've noticed the Fair Folk often say 'perhaps' when there is a truth they want to hide," Clary said. "It keeps you from having to… — Cassandra Clare
Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague. — Karen Chance
Repeat after me, there are the living and the dead, there are day-folk and night-folk, there are ghouls and mist-walkers, there are high hunters and… — Neil Gaiman
Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying. — Walter Kirn

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