Bill Ayers Quotes

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

Bill Ayers

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• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Brother

• My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Mother
  • Always
  • More

• We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • World
  • Mother
  • Door

• My mother taught me to read.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Read

• I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman - not me, not Bill, nobody - more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Man
  • Woman

• When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Mother
  • Eyes
  • Myself

• Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Value
  • Successful

• My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Mother
  • Religious
  • Expectation

• Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Me

• People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Mother
  • Famous

• She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll be like Vivien Leigh.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Experience

• When I became a mother of two, I decided to work with brands that remind me of family because they're my No. 1 priority. Now I'm partnering with Puffs to encourage people to get out and not hibernate inside. People should enjoy the holiday season, and if you do have a runny nose or the sniffles, Puffs is there to take care of your symptoms.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Men
  • Together
  • Commitment

• During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Grief

• We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Night
  • Day
  • Plant

• If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Faith
  • Reflection

• I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • People
  • Fire
  • Perception

• I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

  

  Bill Ayers
  • Mother