Folks Quotes
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Folks need the Gospel. We need to have our hearts changed. We see people from a skewed point of view. We need to see people the way God sees them.
Trip Lee
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I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.
Edward Noyes Westcott
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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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It's time for me to pass this on to you folks,
Andy Griffith
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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
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I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.
Steve Martin
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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
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Sir, you're not telling me that you just learned that the folks at the convention centre didn't have food and water until today, are you? You had no idea that they were completely cut off?
Paula Zahn
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Another crucial thing the tea party did really well is to focus in on the folks who are more or less on your side, and make sure they are as bold as possible.
Ezra G. Levin
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I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.
Neil Peart Rush
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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
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The poor folks hate the rich folks, and the rich folks hate the poor folks. All of my folks hate all of your folks, it's American as apple pie.
Tom Lehrer
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I hate to tell you this, folks, but you're missing a wonderful television show tonight...
Liam Clancy The Clancy Brothers
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I love different folks.
Eleanor Porter
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Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].
Manning Marable
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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
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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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There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.
Dave Alvin
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The thing I keep hearing from folks is that they can’t afford to live in California anymore and they cannot stomach living in California anymore.
Carl DeMaio
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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.
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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
Vita Sackville-West
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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
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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
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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