Quotes of Folks - somelinesforyou

“ Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. ”

- Henry Fielding

“ It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? ”

- Eleanor H. Porter

“ Folks never understand the folks they hate. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks. ”

- Dick Gregory

“ You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all. ”

- Edgar A. Guest

“ We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started. ”

- Charlie Daniels

“ I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it. ”

- Lillian Carter

“ 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

“ Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called walking. ”

- George W. Bush

“ I drive a V10 Ford Excursion and I have to tell folks all the time: look I've got five kids and a dog and birds. I would have to have two Lincolns with two V8s, you see, so it would be 16 cylinders. ”

- Dan Aykroyd

“ The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago. ”

- Louis Armstrong

“ Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more that they do. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man. ”

- Seth Parker

“ We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us — because they are. ”

- Sam Walton

“ We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. ”

- George Eliot

“ There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket. ”

- Will Rogers

“ The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people. ”

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

“ My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big. ”

- Satchel Paige

“ We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. Cause they are. ”

- Sam Walton

“ Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do — or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice. ”

- Walter Anderson

“ 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. ”

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

“ My folks got me a single cutaway Kay. It was acoustic but it also had a pickup. That's the guitar I learned to play on. ”

- Carl Wilson

“ I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments. ”

- Carl Wilson

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

- August Wilson

“ When you get real old, honey, you realizre there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying: Only little children and old folks tell the truth. ”

- Sarah Louise Delany

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

- Barack Obama

“ Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. ”

- Harper Lee

“ Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. ”

- Denis Leary

“ Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines! ”

- Frances Parkinson Keyes

“ This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them. ”

- William Faulkner
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