State Folk Song

Famous quotes containing the words state, folk and/or song:

“The state is not “abolished,” it withers away.”
—Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)

“Some folk want their luck buttered.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“In almost all climes the tortoise and the frog are among the precursors and heralds of this season, and birds fly with song and glancing plumage, and plants spring and bloom, and winds blow, to correct this slight oscillation of the poles and preserve the equilibrium of nature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)