Folks Quotes

You know, old folks can have dreams, too, as well as young folks, and then work toward them. And to have a dream like this come true for me is just a terrific experience.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

I don't like half the folks I love.

God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.

Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

I don't have room in my life for folks that large and demanding.

Folks talk too fast, and don't understand what they talkin' about.

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.

Don't tell me it doesn't work. Torture works. Okay, folks?

Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.

Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

Old folks are the nation.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.

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 the cakes of other folk as well.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.

A lot of folks that ain't saying 'ain't,' ain't eating.

[...] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. [...] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did.

Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light.

When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers.

Difficult folk, these women!

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 handy.

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.

Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death.

What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven't seen before.

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.