Young Folk Quotes

#1. If something can be proven to work, we should try it ... Making sure that our young folk get the best education is the only thing that matters to me, and if something can be shown to work in doing that or if something's worth trying to do that, then I'll certainly be in the market for it.

Nicola Sturgeon

#2. I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves.

Mick Fleetwood

#3. Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

Cornel West

#4. In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

Piers Anthony

#5. I have but one thought in my heart for the young folk of the Church and that is that they be happy. I know of no other place than home where more happiness can be found in this life. It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home.

David

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

Gayla Reid

#7. I was raised in the old way, a way that the young folk see as worn and backwards, today. But if it had not been for our way, they would never have lived to make their own way, so it served them as well as it served us.

Billy Roper

#8. I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don't have choices.

Dick Gregory

#9. Work, the old people say, keeps a man young. But perhaps that is something old folk say just because they know they must go on working.

Robin Hobb

#10. Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.

Dorothy Parker

#11. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'

Cory Booker

#12. Na, she's righted again," said a cool young fisherman, "and they've gotten down that unchancy mast. They maun have stout hearts and skeely hands that work her; but it's for life, and that learns folk baith pith and lear. There! - but it's owre now.

Mrs. Oliphant

#13. I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still in print today. My first young adult book was published a couple of years later, and I've been writing in both genres ever since.

Michael Scott

#14. Armed with a hammer and sickle, singer and folklorist A. L. Lloyd hit the nail on the head and cut to the quick on page one of his monumental study of folk song: 'The mother of folklore is poverty.'3

Rob Young

#15. If you don't give trust to others, it's because you haven't earned it. If you don't have trust form others, it's because YOU haven't earned it.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#16. We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.

Andrew Young

#17. My main influences are pop and folk music - Bob Lind, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, the Motown collection, The Zombies, Elliott Smith, and a ton of 70's AM radio hits. I love powerpop too.

Greta Salpeter

#18. Folk music was not approved of in Llamedos, and the singing of it was rigorously discouraged; it was felt that anyone espying a fair young maiden one morning in May was entitled to take whatever steps they considered appropriate without someone writing it down.

Terry Pratchett

#19. You have terrible judgment. You're in bed with the last man in the world you should trust, and you're about to make the biggest mistake of your life." "Is this your idea of seductive banter?" "I thought I should give you one last warning. Now you're doomed." "Oh, good.

Lisa Kleypas

#20. I like that I'm not typical. I like that I'm called 'no-genre hip-hop.'

Lizzo

#21. Killing must feel good to God too. He does it all the time. Did God feel good about that? He felt powerful.

Hannibal

#22. When you are young and powerless you dream of possessing mystical strength, and once you are grown and strong you condemn lesser folk to that same dream,

Bernard Cornwell

#23. Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? That is long ago. We are old folk.

Erich Maria Remarque

#24. In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.

Peter Mandelson

#25. Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around.

Lawrence Block

#26. Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children

Edward O. Wilson

#27. Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That is long ago. We are old folk.

Erich Maria Remarque

#28. I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

Joni Mitchell

#29. I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.

Morton Feldman

#30. Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.

Elizabeth Bowen

#31. From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish.

Ailyn Perez

#32. Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

Allan Massie

#33. Science and art are not opposed.

Samuel Morse

#34. You may not think I'm a sex symbol, but I became a father at the age of 48. Now young people think of me as a mini-folk hero because it's difficult for them to believe a man of my age is sexually active.

Bob Newhart

#35. How do you know if you're making the right decision?
Easy. Just like two and two always add up to four, kindness and forgiveness is always right, hate and revenge is always wrong.

Fannie Flagg

#36. I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

Guy Laliberte

#37. Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I've ever had. My mother's Irish. And when I was very young, both my brothers were very into traditional music, English and Irish. They were always playing music, so I was always brought up with it.

Kate Bush

#38. I've always been very conscious of who I am.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

#39. At six o'clok the young King's terrible sufferings finally ended. After his eyes had closed for the last time, the tempeste raged on. Later, superstitious folk claimed that Henry himself had sent it, and had risen from his grave in anger at the subversion of his will.

Alison Weir