"Folks" Quotes . Top 30 Short Quotes About "Folks"

"Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Speech #Winter #Passion

"The fans are the end result of what we do. Sometimes I think we forget that those are the folks that mean it in this game. There's plenty of evidence to be found that you can have all the #1 records in the world, but if you really ain't touchin' them, you don't come home with gold records and platinum records. I'm very proud that we've only had one #1 record, but we've sold two and one half million!"

--- Aaron Tippin

#Thinking #Mean #Found

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Real Happiness #Success #Soul

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Book #Black Humor #Vice And Virtue

"Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement."

--- Adam McKay

#People #Dangerous #Folks

"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."

--- Adam Rogers

#Dots #Style #Folks

"The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood."

--- Adolf Hitler

#Abolish #Together #Socialist

"When folk have set before them a true purpose and then pursue it unmoved with bravery and courage, when they withstand with a strong heart every trial which Heaven sends upon them, then one day at the last Almighty Providence will yet grant them the fruits of their struggle and of their sacrifices. For God has never abandoned any man upon this earth unless he has first abandoned himself."

--- Adolf Hitler

#Lasts #Providence #One Day

"For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value."

--- Adolf Hitler

#Money #Values #Folks

"If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us. In the long run He never leaves decent folk in the lurch. Often He may test them, He may send trials upon them, but in the long run He always lets His sun shine upon them once more and at the end He gives them His blessing."

--- Adolf Hitler

#Sun Shines #Gods Will #Long Runs

"See that unfortunate soldier who is falling hurt to death ("tombe blessé à...", Fr.) on the battlefield; he learns that his folks have vanquished and dies happy. He detached himself from himself (s'est détacher de lui-même", Fr.), has identified himself with something greater and more lasting than himself; his homeland ("patrie", Fr.); thus, while dying as an individual, he has the certainty to survive in a larger existence."

--- African Spir

#Certainty #Bless #Existence

"If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians."

--- Agnes de Mille

#Politician #Folk Songs #Pay

"At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year - 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me. These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads."

--- Ai Weiwei

#People #Creative #Know Me

"I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times."

--- Al Jarreau

#Folks #Life And Time

"Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television -- bar none!"

--- Al Michaels

#Television #Wells #Folks

"White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it."

--- Al Sharpton

#Greek #Empires #White

"Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult."

--- Al Stewart

#Rap #Heavy Metal #Rocks

"There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it."

--- Al Stewart

#Rocks #World #Rooms

"I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos."

--- Alan Arkin

#Underwear #Actors #Making A Living

"Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners."

--- Alan Freed

#Music #Rocks #Swings

"The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk."

--- Alan Hirsch

#Adventure #Passivity #Embrace

"Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel."

--- Alan Hirsch

#People #Conscious #Self

"I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles."

--- Alan Jackson

#Poodles #Folks #Politics

"So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses. Let us stop skewing the whole process by taking some folks who are not truly refugees in order simply to meet our foreign policy needs or domestic policy demands. There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now. I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act."

--- Alan K. Simpson

#Thinking #Share #Responsible

"The gun control mentality is ruthlessly absurd. It suggests that you pass a law which will bind law-abiding citizens — they won't have access to weapons. Now, we know that criminals, by definition, are people who don't obey laws. Therefore, you can pass all the laws that you want, they will still have access to these weapons, just as they have access to illegal drugs and other things right now. That means you end up with a situation in which the law-abiding folks can't defend themselves, and the crooks have all the guns."

--- Alan Keyes

#People #Mean #Crooks

"When are Christian folks going to remember that every time you call yourself a Christian, you invoke the name of God, and that if you then walk a walk that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, cast a vote that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, then you are taking the name of the Lord your God in vain?"

--- Alan Keyes

#Walks #Vote #Folks

"From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms, and so forth to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom."

--- Alan Keyes

#War Of The Worlds #Revolutionary #War

"The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies"

--- Alan Lomax

#Essence #Hero #Dream

"People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile."

--- Alan Lomax

#People #Ballads #Mountain

"Folk Music is the map of singing."

--- Alan Lomax

#Maps #Music Is #Singing

30 "Folks" Quotes