Folks Quotes

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

The holly green, the ivy green The prettiest picture you've ever seen Is Christmas in Killarney With all of the folks at home.

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.

Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.

Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them.

Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)

The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.

The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.

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.

My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact, my blood type is solid marmalade.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment!

You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.

It’s just what they are — they’re jokes…most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks…I can’t determine what offends another person.

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.

I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

With big folks, either people think you look mean or it's more of a jolly Santa Claus, 'Oh, he's just a pudgy little teddy bear pillow.'

There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.

When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own.

When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Yes folks, their gold medal looks the same as everybody elses.

There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.

Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.

Folk is bare bones music.

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews, but because they are folks, and I don’t like folks.

Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

I loved Israeli music, Israeli folk music.

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.

Some folks get nauseous, have body cramping -- they will get lightheaded and get a sense of fatigue.

Everybody has their favorite character.That's the only way I pick, whatever is going on in society, whatever I think folks will laugh at that's what I come up with.

Fools are not mad folks.