Folks Quotes

So my concern is that - what the campaign has to do is to pull those folks [negative to Donald Trump] out and make sure that they actually get to the ballot.

When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.

To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: Be careful.

The Lakers fans have been great, even folks in the supermarket are welcoming me back.

The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.

America has become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.

My folks are hilarious extroverts and have always been very supportive of all my artistic endeavors. I'm really lucky to come from such an encouraging family.

But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.

Remember, folks, I am a comedian, not a journalist.

I think that Donald Trump picked on people's fears, their anxieties and he gave them somebody to blame, and some folks just really turned out for him for that.

There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings.

Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Norman, Okla. That's where my folks live, so it's home to me.

There's a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.

These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.

I decided that I'm not going to pound my fist anymore at those folks and at laws that I can't change.

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always were a lot of guitarists around.

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that sense of panic.

It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.

North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

White folks still in the lead.

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection?

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

Folks say I'm egotistical. Hell, I don't even know what it means.

In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.

I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black Lives Matter is doing, mobilizing people. God bless them.

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them?

For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

We need to understand that being an accomplice or accessory to those who seek to enslave our posterity, is no better than being the folks that are locking the chains themselves.

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

You're always going to need those folks that introduce certain things to the next generation and I fit in that sense.

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.

I don't mind the job of saying to white people, "Yes, this is what I think you need to know, this is what I think you've been missing." And it's my job to educate white folks every day.

Social media is new to me and I didn't think I would like it, being very protective of my private space, but it's nice to connect to the love and positive vibes folks have to share.

I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do.

That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.

You have to get out in the world and meet folks on their own turf, something which a lot of urban radical intellectuals seldom do.