Folks
In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.
People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks.
The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well.
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Folks Quotations
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama
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
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
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
I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
Barack Obama
Folks never understand the folks they hate.
James Russell Lowell
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
George Eliot
More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
Elvis Presley
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
Folks Translations
folks in German is Leute, Volk, Leute
folks in Italian is gente, volgo
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