#folk

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. ↗

— John Buchan

#comfortable #compact #conspiracy #folk #keep

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

#allows #creates #denied #folks #insurance

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#i #read #really #remember #singing

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance. ↗

— Julian Castro

#chance #economy #even #folks #free

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#bridges #building #died #folk #folk songs

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. ↗

— Chuck D.

#aim #always #black #even #everyone

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.' ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#god #mississippi #saying #texas #thank

I never saw myself as a folk singer. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#folk singer #i #myself #never #saw

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

#ever #folks #i #left #lend

These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools. ↗

— Bob Filner

#agencies #agents #behavior #border #border patrol