Folks Quotes

1336 Folks quotes by 922 unique authors

Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that… — Catherynne M. Valente
It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. — George Eliot
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. — Harper Lee
For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Churches crack me up. They're like money, a conspiracy of faith. Like everyone agreed to believe that not only is there a God, but he… — Karen Marie Moning
Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross… — Kami Garcia
When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets. — Junot Diaz
Let me tell you something 'bout these rich Uptown folk," said Cokie. "They got everything that money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but… — Ruta Sepetys
Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk… — Catherynne M. Valente
The Hamilton family was a bunch of hugging folks — Unknown Author
Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is… — Dorothy Parker
The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at… — Nella Larsen
Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons - these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world - it seemed to have no pattern,… — Cassandra Clare
ALICE She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME And she grew so tall, She ate from a plate called TASTE ME And down she… — Shel Silverstein
Now, I've always known that there were bullies in the world. We've seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily… — Whoopi Goldberg
In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, 'traditional… — Robert Anton Wilson
Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of… — Neil Gaiman
Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state:… — David Rakoff
The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things… — Zora Neale Hurston
With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to… — Mark Zuckerberg
The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's… — Billy Taylor
You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead… — Mary McLeod Bethune
Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled… — Harlan Ellison

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