(738 quotes found)
“Try everything once except folk dancing and incest.”
Sir Thomas Beecham
“Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."”
George W. Bush
“White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.”
Ma Rainey
“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
“Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.”
Henry Fielding
“I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.”
William S. Burroughs
“The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary?”
Dante Alighieri
“Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!/ O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! / The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip-off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.”
Daniel Smith
