Folk Quotes
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Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.
Milton Berle -
Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I'm a folk preacher. A folk therapist. A folk musician. I come from authentically that which is of my experience. Therefore, the music is strictly from the soul, strictly improvisational.
Cecil Williams -
Difficult folk, these women!
Mikhail Bulgakov -
Some folk want their luck buttered.
Thomas Hardy -
I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.
Evan Davis -
It's possible to go faster than folk are ready for; that's the key to democracy.
Naomi Mitchison -
A folk melody can exist uniquely but also still be somewhat familiar to you.
Ruston Kelly
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There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.
Ernest Bevin -
John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.
Harvey Gantt -
I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.
Ed Droste -
Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak.
Willard Mullin -
For all that they love to make kings, John’s folk seem to have little interest in the actual business of ruling anything. They like to become, they do not like to be.
Catherynne M. Valente -
We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it's only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body's a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions
Catherynne M. Valente -
In my experience, folk find it nigh on impossible to call a thing what it is.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Most folk have three faces - the face they get when they're children, the face they own when they're grown, and the face they've earned when they're old.
Catherynne M. Valente