Folks Quotes

These are folks that keep people out of hospitals, out of emergency rooms, out of nursing homes. And not only that, they help people achieve more fulfilling lives.

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.

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

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.

Folk is bare bones music.

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.

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

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

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

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

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.

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].

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.

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.

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.

I've got a lot of folks who want to get rid of TSA, a bunch of them.

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.

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.

We'll really have a party, but we gotta put a guard outside, if the folks come home I'm afraid they gonna have my hide.

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.

What I love about what digital entertainment has done is that they've given real creative freedom to folks like myself who are doing really groundbreaking stuff.

There is so much oil now in the Gulf of Mexico, and you can thank the folks of British Petroleum for this, so much oil in the Gulf, you can now park on it.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

Believe me, folks, I've been saying it for a long time. The system, the whole system is rigged.

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

These are beautiful days. Folks ask what I'm doing. I tell them I'm doing family.

I don't have to tell you folks about scuba diving. So, that'll save some time.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them.

Folks, this is perfect weather for today's game. Not a breath of air.

I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks too.

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.

I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.

I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?

For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.

Ill never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.