Driven Quote by Bill Ayers Download Open image “Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.” — Bill Ayers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Driven Drs Parent Parenting
One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society. They were… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
My father was very confrontational and an intellectual bully. My mom was a peacemaker who wanted to make everyone comfortable. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
I was brought up by a father and mother who were radically different. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life. — Zachery Ty Bryan Copy Share Image
Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from. — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
My parents were adorable. They were very kind, and very broad-minded compared to people of their generation. — Anne Reid Copy Share Image
My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
One of the great crimes of the Bloomberg/Klein administration [in New York City] is that they've removed themselves from communities, as if communities have… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I'm wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I'm that way too. So… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968]. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
When you heed the calling of your heart, you are following your purpose. Having purpose in your life gives you the courage to do… — Rhonda Britten Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself,… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see. — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents. — Dawn Fraser Copy Share Image
When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded. — Alexander Suvorov Copy Share Image