Folks Quotes

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.

We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.

I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is trying to make sense of this world through poetry the way I try to.

In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.

Whether its veterans disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.

Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.

We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.

The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire.

When I get old, I'm going to the old folks' home. I don't want to be one of those guys who's hanging around the house bothering the kids. But not just any old folks' home. I want the whole top floor.

Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me.

Uh, folks, I think that’s our boat trying to kill us. (Scott)

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

I gotta tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in David Letterman's chair. Folks those are some huge shoes to fill, and some really big pants.

By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.

It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs" - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)

I often wish that folks would use Twitter for something more than sharing quotes

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?

I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.

Your stage persona is usually a version of yourself, to varying degrees. Some folks do a full-on character, so that's different. But most comics do some version of themselves.

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

Up above Aliens hover Making home movies For the folks back home Of all these weird creatures Who lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves And live for their secrets.

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

You know, folks, I'm going to make America great again. Honestly, I'm going to make America great again.

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

I came late to the genre of folk music.

The hyperfast-moving, wired-up, reengineered, quality-obsessed organization will succeed or fail on the strength of the trust that its managers place in the folks working on the front line.

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.

Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town

old folks is the nation.

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.

Me and my friends get together all the time for girls night, or watch rock of love on the couch. I end up going out to a lot of shows, and surfing with my folks is always high on the priority list.

Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.

We don't have enough folks who grew up in working class rural communities.

Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.

To me, more importantly, I want to make films that I believe in, that I find value in that I think folks will like.

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.

Threatened folk live long.

I'm just happy that a couple folks still know my name, and that I'm still able to sell out venues when I perform live.

My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.