Folks Quotes

There is one thing that 99 percent of 'failures' and 'successful' folks have in common - they all hate doing the same things. The difference is successful people do them anyway.

But one thing the New Age folks and those who pursue alternative spiritual visions need to be aware of is how easily we can become and at times in my experience are like the religious right.

We have a movement going on, folks. I will never let you down.

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

Folks always look good in their coffins.

Why is it that most of the folks I know think "personal growth" is caused entirely by those second and third helpings of biscuits and gravy?

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.

Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened.

Hi, folks, I'm Jerry Gross. No, I'm not, I'm Jerry Coleman.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.

There's this Tea Party wing, the Republican Party with the Chamber of commerce folks and all of those other people. They are not anti-immigration, by the way.

Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.

I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.

We have to understand where we have strategic relationships that require us to take a different approach. I guess the easiest way to describe it is: different strokes for different folks.

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.

We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.

The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're driven by a fire in their bellies to make a difference.

Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

Sometimes, keeping track of people. It's always a weird combination of worrying so much about the outside world, and not... you have to be more aware of the inner circle, the folks that matter.

Folks, we are in the midst of dangerous times like you cannot believe, and Donald J. Trump is the target.

I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

Most folks call them green onions, but they're really scallions.

Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.

In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks...MACHINE-GUN BACON.

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid

It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.

From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes.

Coloring allows folks to express themselves in a creative way. It's healthy.

When I deal with folks I know casually, that are either famous or were famous. To be a big star, you have to be a little delusional. Nothing else matters than being that star. It's a bit weird.

Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!

Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

I have always been an independent voice for the folks in my district.

When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same.

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists in the world know that climate change is happening.

What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you

There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.

There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.

I don't mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that's what I signed up to do

My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.

If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round.