Quotes About Folks

#1. That's all folks!

Mel Blanc

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

Junot Diaz

#3. It's hard to think of the divide where I grew up as a watershed. The creeks are dry most of the year, rainfall is undependable at best, and folks in one river system are always trying to steal water from another.

Faith A. Colburn

#4. White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to stay here mongst each other and git along, that's what.

Margaret Walker

#5. Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

Bill O'Reilly

#6. If you obey God with your whole heart, you'll usually scare off the folks who want you to obey them.

Meg Moseley

#7. 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.

Molly Ivins

#8. Folks in the wagon train figured Ma would turn back, but they hadn't known Ma so long as I had. Once she set her mind to something she wasn't about to quit.

Louis L'Amour

#9. 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.

Cyndi Lauper

#10. A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.

David Letterman

#11. Pride brought down a lot of folks. One of these days you gon' have to turn around and look at whatever it is you running from.

Ayana Mathis

#12. It was just tiresome thinking about folks having to fight for the least little thing. I loved my people for fighting, but hated the reason why, and that left me with that crosscut notion of pride and anger pulling in different directions, two kinds of muscle fighting for the same piece of bone.

Ravi Howard

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

George Carlin

#14. You're jest a-teasin' yourself up to cry. I don' know what's come at you. Our folks ain't never did that. They took what come to 'em dry-eyed.

John Steinbeck

#15. Kids don't think about their folks nearly as much as everybody imagines. Parents are just there, like background music at the mall.

Ron Koertge

#16. I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for ... my memories aged nought to ten ... are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun.

Johnny Vegas

#17. I've long thought that Marco Rubio would make a strong G.O.P. candidate for president. While he was brought into office by surfing on the Tea Party wave, he has proven himself not to be wedded to the frequent lunacy of those folks.

Kurt Eichenwald

#18. I don't think people in power have the potential to do anything like that to me. I feel as though as long as our music is available, folks are going to hear it.

Gil Scott-Heron

#19. Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

Bill O'Reilly

#20. Donors want to meet famous people, and getting a high profile draw for a fundraiser is one way to boost both the crowd and the cash. It's why the president and the vice president are always in demand. These folks are in demand because people around the country want to meet them.

Carl Forti

#21. College students, couples, people covered with eagle tattoos, boat captains, white-haired folks - we were all singing, waiting especially for the chorus

Peter Jenkins

#22. Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks.
People go west when all bets are off: a reputation in ruins, a love gone wrong. When they need to save their sorry souls, folks head for the frontier.

Karen Hines

#23. I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, honest, and - and clear. You relied on people being what they said they were, because there was no other way to survive.

Toni Morrison

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

Loretta Lynn

#25. 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.

Mel Torme

#26. In fact, I really didn't get enthused about his Secretary of State race until I attended a couple of his rallies and found out there were a bunch of young folks that there were a bunch of young folks that he had been able to recruit on his own.

Birch Bayh

#27. I guess us folks in California are kind of straitlaced and old-fashioned.
Hahaha, I thought on the way downstairs. I never thought I'd say those words with a straight face ...

J.R. Rain

#28. But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents taught us that in order to succeed, we 'had to be twice as good as white folks.' We were constantly being prepared to enter a world dominated by whites.

Junius Williams

#29. Dead folks use plastic! When in doubt, throw it out! Please use the bathroom appointed for your gender and mortality!

Lia Habel

#30. Some folks is meant to make excuses. Some folks is meant to make history.

Allan Wolf

#31. From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel - whether it's the House of Representatives or the Senate. That's the whole reason for being.

Brian Lamb

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

Barack Obama

#33. Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.

Gayla Reid

#34. The problem is, most folks these days don't have enough faith to see the magic that's all around them. These days, normal means confused, fallen, lost.

J. Gabriel Gates

#35. VI was predecessor to hundreds of word processing systems. By now, Unix folks see it as a bit stodgy - it hasn't the versatility of Gnu-Emacs, nor the friendliness of more modern editors. Despite that, VI shows up on every Unix system.

Clifford Stoll

#36. O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?

Horace

#37. I want a strong border. I do want a wall. Walls do work, you just have to speak to the folks in Israel. Walls work if they're properly constructed. I know how to build, believe me, I know how to build.

Donald Trump

#38. I know two L.A.s. Half my life was around the house my folks had for 46 years at 3rd and Norton. The other half was in Boyle Heights on the Eastside, working with gang members.

Greg Boyle

#39. From Elisha Comes to Red Horse:
I leave their politics and religion be. Folks can think the way they want, act the way they please, even to acting the fool. All I ask is they don't make too much noise and don't interfere with other people.

Louis L'Amour

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

August Wilson

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

Charles Dickens

#42. As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

George Benson

#43. We white folks cling to such an abiding sense of entitlement that when things go amiss, we cannot let go of this tortuously sunny, idiotically cheerful doppelganger of a world that we deserve in which life is swell.

Lionel Shriver

#44. Folks call me Ellis. I run an auto shop with a couple of my buddies. We're also in a band. I play bass.

Ellis

#45. 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.

Susan Rice

#46. for God raised Jesus from the dead for the sake of shepherds and children and poor folks and all of us who worry a lot about security but can never finally make ourselves safe.

James C. Howell

#47. You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

Patricia C. Wrede

#48. One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together; their families got to know each other, go to dinner at each other's homes at weekends - and these would be people who were political adversaries.

Robert M. Gates

#49. We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

Frank A. Clark

#50. Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

William S. Burroughs

#51. I believe if the viewing of slaughter was required to eat meat, most folks would become vegetarians.

Howard Lyman

#52. I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we have brought down from our barbarious ancestors. We have left off the war paint and war whoops, and we shall leave off the hangin' when we get civilized.

Marietta Holley

#53. 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.

Marie Corelli

#54. Some folks like trains,
some folks like ships,

I like the way you move you hips
All I want is a taste of your lips,
boy,
All I want is a taste of your lips.

Kathy Acker

#55. I've always mistrusted that sort o' learning as leaves folks foolish and unreasonable about business.

George Eliot

#56. We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Barack Obama

#57. I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

James McBride

#58. There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

George Eliot

#59. 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.

Bob Hope

#60. In life, you learned that not all white people are racist, not all black folks are criminals, let's admit it and love one another..

Werley Nortreus

#61. People are watching TV, they're watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there's a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.

Biz Stone

#62. As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my folks.

Alice Walker

#63. I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter.

Duane G. Carey

#64. Most of the problems with the bodies and minds of the folks occupying the current culture involve an unwillingness to do anything hard, or anything that they'd rather not do. I applaud your resolve, and I welcome you to the community of people who have decided that EASY will no longer suffice.

Mark Rippetoe

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#66. But when folks are down to the one thing that keeps them alive, that one thing can be meanness. It makes you feel like you're there, you're doing something.

Marilynne Robinson

#67. I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing, ...

Alberta Hunter

#68. In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

Wendy Kopp

#69. We want to be able to let the audience get to know these folks. One of the things about The Avengers, over the last 50 years, is the fun of changing up the gang and bringing in new characters.

Jeph Loeb

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

John Redmond

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

Leonard Nimoy

#72. The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.

Guy Burgess

#73. Folks from the backwoods were certain about two things: that every human soul needed to be free and that the responsibility of being free required one to be a person of integrity, a person who lived in such a way that there would always be congruency between what one thinks, says, and does.

Bell Hooks

#74. This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs
no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire.

Shane Claiborne

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

Josh Billings

#76. 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.

Matt Shea

#77. From the moment of birth, folks suddenly wanted what others said they could not have. Kids craved the most sugary sweets how alcoholics thirsted for one more drink with the most impactful punch.

Jermaine Watkins

#78. Don't be shy about believing in your ideas - even if folks around you think you're crazy.

Tim Westergren

#79. Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.

Steven Johnson

#80. I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.

Mick Mulvaney

#81. Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

Chuck Palahniuk

#82. Where there is love, there is no question. Where there is a question, there is no love. Then it becomes a business. So love is the totality of the self. My dear folks, if you cannot find yourself, you can never find anybody you want to find.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#83. The secret of a successful art career is to make more art that folks think they need than pieces they just want. When a piece of art emotionally connects with a person the work becomes a need. You are then on your way to becoming successful.

Jack White

#84. Clergy are men as well as other folks.

Henry Fielding

#85. A platform is the base from which something big happens. In our case, we're an entertainment platform in the sense that there are people signing up like MTV, Burberry, folks like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. And why? Because it's their channel to control their entertainment to their fans.

Kevin Systrom

#86. We're not the damned, folks, we're the categorically fucked.
-Urian

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#87. In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.

Benjamin E. Mays

#88. Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.

Wallace Thurman

#89. Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing.

Rush Limbaugh

#90. We [people] need to stop lumping folks together and start living together. Otherwise, we're going to kill each other off because you don't believe what I believe. That's crazy.

Jeremiah Wright

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

Topher Grace

#92. A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

James Payn

#93. 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.

Stephen Colbert

#94. The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks.

Fanny Kemble

#95. That's right, folks. This is the sort of novel that starts with a fucking Venn diagram. Buckle up, bitches.

Robert Kroese

#96. We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.

Mitch McConnell

#97. I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler or to Nazis to think a bit harder about the Holocaust.

Mike Godwin

#98. Racism isn't born, folks. It's taught. I have a 2-year-old son. Know what he hates? Naps. End of list.

Denis Leary

#99. That machine's a great invention!" he said. "Other folks can stick to old-fashioned ways if they want to, but I'm all for progress. It's a great age we're living in. As long as I raise wheat, I'm going to have a machine come and thresh it, if there's one anywhere in the neighborhood.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#100. I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

Kendrick Lamar