Folks Quotes

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Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

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Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
- Tobias Smollett

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old
age than into helping them enjoy it.
- Frank Howard Clark

It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money,
when what they don't know is how to use it.
- Frank Howard Clark

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten
some material about my miserable childhood.
But as it is, I've had a great life.
- Tim Conway

And you know, we'd go to church.
We were Baptists.
And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up,
and it was the Holiness folks.
And we liked their music.
- Mel Tillis

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the
record player and I would run around the house screaming,
but I haven't been that hip since.
- Leo Kottke

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

Nowadays, business is all about productivity -
and our folks produce.
- John Hoeven

I think most folks are good folks.
- Judge Mills Lane

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.
- Tom Hicks

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.
- James Bovard

The little words in the Republic of Letters,
like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
- Samuel Richardson

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks -
people without resources or options.
- Henry Hampton

It is always open season on Christian and on white
folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it.
It is politically correct.
- Jack Kingston

I used to be friends with Miles Davis.
He didn't like many folks.
I lived across the street from him.
- Rip Torn

I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down.
I did that on a six string.
I can't recall all the songs on it.
There's some finger picking on it.
- Roger McGuinn

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.
- Arnold H. Glasow

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.
- Frank Howard Clark

Most people understand life expectancy has changed
since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old.
Today, they live to be 77 years old.
- Jack Kingston

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
- Kin Hubbard

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing
things for other folks then you have to pay for it
in abuse and misunderstanding.
- Zora Neale Hurston

But Patsy, she was a great, great girl.
And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person,
and her mama Grace.
I've known those folks for years and years and years.
- Mel Tillis

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard.
They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy
inadvertently induces a recession.
- William Greider

It's shades of Vietnam again, folks:
body counts.
- Seymour Hersh

I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country,
and 90 percent of the people are good folks.
The rest of them take after the other side of the family.
- Jeff Foxworthy

This is a free country.
Folks have a right to send me letters,
and I have a right not to read them.
- William Faulkner

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do
unto me what they do unto themselves.
- Toni Cade Bambara

Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days...
Not all in a row.
- Sam Kinison

I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home.
I think that's the trick.
- Brad Paisley

Rich folks always talk hard times.
- Lillian Smith

Most of all, our troops from Alabama said they appreciate
the care packages from folks back home.
- Mike Rogers

I haven't got as much money as some folks,
but I've got as much impudence as any of them,
and that's the next thing to money.
- Josh Billings

We need to internalize this idea of excellence.
Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
- Barack Obama

America enjoys the best health care in the world,
but the best is no good if folks can't afford it,
access it and doctor's can't provide it.
- Bill Frist

Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight.
- John Fahey

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

This is the kind of problem you want to have!
Country radio has been great to me my whole career.
I can't thank those folks enough.
- George Strait

Folks, I've had the best seat in the house.
Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.
- Brent Musburger

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking,
all they do is mess me up.
- Loretta Lynn

We have a plan that creates universal access programs
at the state level which allows folks to access insurance
if they're denied by their insurer.
- Eric Cantor

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger,
which in Texas is called "walking."
- George W. Bush

Some folks rail against other folks,
because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
- Henry Fielding

Folks never understand the folks they hate.
- James Russell Lowell

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.
- Max Baucus

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
- George Eliot

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

We let folks know we're interested in them
and that they're vital to us - because they are.
- Sam Walton

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life,
but I haven't been around that long.
Not quite.
- Norman Rockwell

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

There are some people that will be deterred by the
fact that we have nuclear weapons...
But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway.
- Charles Horner

White folks hear the blues come out,
but they don't know how it got there.
- Ma Rainey

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization,
from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
- James Roosevelt

That's all folks!
- Mel Blanc

Tell us exactly - certainly our listeners -
why does it appear that some folks,
certainly in the Democratic Party and in the news media -
seem to be afraid of you?
- Tony Brown

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

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now,
man, for more years than I know.
I got it from them.
- Elvis Presley

I think there's just one kind of folks.
Folks.
- Harper Lee

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.
- Anne McCaffrey

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it,
folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of
dancing seemed a good way to have it.
- Lawrence Welk

My God, these folks don't know how to love -
that's why they love so easily.
- David Herbert Lawrence

We are thinking ahead to long-term care,
aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready.
We want to see to it that people will have choices.
- Christine Gregoire

I go wild on a stage.
Some folks have measured us an image.
They pretend us to be saints.
And that image is much tougher to keep up with.
Because that's not who we are.
- Donnie Wahlberg

Folks, this is perfect weather for today's game.
Not a breath of air.
- Curt Gowdy

I wanted to go to sea when I graduated from high school
but my folks talked me out of it.
- William M. Thomas

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them;
the only books I have in my library are books that
other folks have left me.
- Anatole France

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

The folks in Mississippi are saying,
'Thank God for Texas.'
- Kinky Friedman

I usually don't mind giving autographs,
but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you,
it's time to seek shelter.
- Mary Lou Retton

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction.
It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.
- Laurell K. Hamilton

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie