Folks Quotes
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Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.
Henry Hampton -
Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.
William Faulkner
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What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them?
Martin Luther -
Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.
Steve Earle -
It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
George Eliot -
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.
Northrop Frye -
Now folks say 'I believe in this Internet world and I want to disclose my data before publishing ... but don't scoop me on my own project.'
Eric Lander -
Other kids' parents wouldn't let them read magazines like 'Weird Tales,' but my folks were big readers themselves, so they didn't mind.
Robert Weinberg
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I'm sure there are folks out there somewhere who are working on that now.
Bob Kaufman -
Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me.
Sherman Alexie -
Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.
Sarah Palin -
I would say that folks who have looked at this issue for a long time, whether it's Elizabeth Warren or many other economists, will tell you that right now, yes, we do need a 21st century Glass-Steagall legislation.
Hillary Clinton -
I've got a lot of folks who want to get rid of TSA, a bunch of them.
Mike Rogers -
Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.
Margaret Mitchell
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Folks don't fall from laughter to fear in that way when they're nervously strong, and nerves take their toll of the body in the end.
Elizabeth Goudge -
A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.
William Langland -
It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.
Jonathan Swift -
Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.
Tom Vilsack -
It's not unreasonable to ask folks to stay clean in order to receive federal assistance.
Stephen Fincher -
Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.
Richard Pryor
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I think it means that we'll be able to track down the actual causes of disease. What most folks don't realize we don't know the cause of asthma, of heart disease, of diabetes or hypertension.
Eric Lander -
I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.
Michael Caine -
Even being a Jedi is something where you look for more. At first you acted as if Jedi was synonymous with hero. It isn't. Being a hero isn't what all these folks are here to do. They're here to do their jobs." -Jaina Solo
Michael A. Stackpole -
In the first place, any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be commended and encouraged: The spirit of human frolic needs all the help it can get.
Molly Ivins