Folks Quotes
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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.
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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?
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I got off a plane today at the airbase and I met a whole bunch of military folks there waiting to see me, they all made reference to my son and his military service and expressed their condolences. And although it's still kind of an open wound, it gave me a sense of strength knowing they all meant it.
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It was a great feeling knowing that we could contribute to helping those folks get back to their lives,
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It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
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The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.
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Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody. You included.
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Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
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Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.
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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.
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It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.
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There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
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To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...
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Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.
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Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
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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.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.
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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.
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A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.
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Hip-hop is the last true folk art.
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There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.
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Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.
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Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.
