Folks Quotes
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It was a great feeling knowing that we could contribute to helping those folks get back to their lives,
Eric Wilson -
Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Beef is not what Jay said to Nas; Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
You see everything, from downtown to uptown, all kinds of folks.
Larry Taylor Canned Heat -
The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.
Oprah Winfrey -
I hate to tell you this, folks, but you're missing a wonderful television show tonight...
Liam Clancy The Clancy Brothers -
So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.
Barack Obama -
The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'
Kinky Friedman
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Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?
Stevie Wonder -
I love different folks.
Eleanor Porter -
I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.
Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones -
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
Eleanor Porter -
For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
Vita Sackville-West -
Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.
Billy Joel
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My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.
Satchel Paige -
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 some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn't know they were being cruel in the first place. Or at least thought you deserved of their scorn.
Barack Obama, Sr. -
Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].
Manning Marable -
The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.
Kirby Larson -
When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'
Sarah Louise Delany -
The young folks that are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. So we've got to be very careful how we address it on our side.
Saxby Chambliss
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Most folks don't know about it. But I thought it was worth a shot, as I could direct my fans to it via my Web site.
Alex Chilton Big Star -
From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes.
Adam Rogers -
It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.
John Marston -
Anytime you get this many light-skinned black people together at least half of them are going to be folks who act light-skinned.
BarbaraNeely