Folksongs Quotes & Sayings

to break the bonds of distrust is natural human sympathy. Pity has killed more people than hate. — Rick Yancey

Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible. — Alan Turing

I do my best to work out 5 days a week. There are times when I can only get in 3 days a week because I am traveling or just need rest due to a hectic schedule. But working out is always a priority, and if I fall off due to my schedule, it is not long before I get back on track. — Laila Ali

The real challenge of compassion, nonviolence and mindfulness is to love in adverse situation. — Amit Ray

The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people. — Tom Lehrer

A black sheep is a biting beast. — Thomas Bastard

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting. — Eric Hoffer

I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools. There was always music being played either on record, Jazz and Folk, by musician friends of my mother. I took to singing very early, I believe it has been a Gift I was born with. — Vicki Sue Robinson

What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear. — Walt Disney

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. — Tom Glazer

I liked labels; I liked putting people and things into categories. It helped me calibrate my expectations of people and relationships. If I didn't label my sisters as bad, I would be an enabler of their behavior, just like my father was. I didn't plan on spending my life as a doormat, or living in the waiting room of perpetual disappointment, hoping they would change. "So, — Penny Reid

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once. — Karl Kraus