Folks Quotes - Page 12

• Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Safety, Goes On, Poor

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• My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Christian, Mother

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• Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Hitting

  Speech at the CBC Foundation gala, thegrio.com. September 24, 2011.

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

  Barack Obama

  Time, Ideas, Perfection

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• I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

  Barack Obama

  Passing By, Central Park, People

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• Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Moving, Thinking

  Remarks at Laborfest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 6, 2010.

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• The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

  Susan Orlean

  Opposites, Feelings, Genius

  "Snap" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 22, 2010.

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• A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

  Mehmet Oz

  Believe, Years, Best Year

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• I bet you never heard of a playa with no game, Told the truth to get what I want, but shot it with no shame. Take this music dead serious while others entertain. I see they makin' they paper so I guess I can't complain...or can I? I feel they disrespectin' the whole thang. Them hooks like sellin' dope to black folks, And I choke when the food they serve ain't tastin' right, My stomach can't digest it even when I bless it.

  Andre Benjamin

  Rap, Dope, Games

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• The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Ignorance

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• In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom...of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Heart, Thinking

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.154, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• So here’s where they put you. I didn’t think they even used these cells anymore.” He glanced sideways. “I got the wrong window at first. Gave your friend in the next cell something of a shock. Attractive fellow, what with the beard and the rags. Kind of reminds me of the street folk back home.

  Cassandra Clare

  Home, Thinking, Cells

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?

  Henry Beston

  Stars, Fear, Night

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.28, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, Lifetime, Graves

  "Fools for love" by Bell Hooks, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2000.

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• Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.

  Walter Moers

  Food, Gourmet, Ordinary

  Walter Moers (2009). “The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Novel”, p.38, The Overlook Press

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• It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello.

  David Baldacci

  Country, Journey, America

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Christmas Train”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

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• I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting that to the nth degree, factoring in all the goodness they can perceive, which often isn't much, and then call that God. And while it may seem like a noble effort, the truth is that it falls pitifully short of who I really am. I'm not merely the best version of you that you can think of. I am far more than that, above and beyond all that you can ask or think.

  William P. Young

  Fall, Thinking, Who I Am

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• It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

  Ron Rash

  Philosophy, Dark, Men

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• 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

  Music, Memories, Night

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• Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Use, Way, Cry

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.31, University of Illinois Press

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• (a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.

  Alice Walker

  Struggle, Moon, Spirit Love

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.1964, Hachette UK

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• Seeing a patter doesn't mean you know how to put it all together. Take baby steps: don't focus on the folks whose skills are far beyond your own. When you're new to something-or you haven't tried it in a while-it can feel impossibly hard to get it right. Every misstep feels like a reason to quit. You envy everyone else who seems to know what they're doing. What keeps you going? The belief that one day you'll also be like that: Elegant. Capable. Confident. Experienced. And you can be. All you need now is enthusiasm. A little bravery. And-always-a sense of humor.

  Kate Jacobs

  Baby, Mean, Skills

  Kate Jacobs (2008). “Knit Two”, p.6, Penguin

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• When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Long, Done

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to...'Nothing says you have to swallow this,' Rant told me. 'You can always just die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Views, Forever, Obsolescence

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• That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll ever match it. I used to think it was difficult for children of folks who really loved each other, hard to get out from under that skin because sometimes it's just so comfortable you don't want to have to develop your own.

  Colum McCann

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

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