Top 100 Ayers Quotes
#1. WESLEY AYERS is the stranger in the halls of the Coronado. He is the Keeper in the garden who shares my secret. He is the boy who reads me books. He is the one who teaches me how to touch.
Victoria Schwab
#3. He couldn't jeopardize the saloon because of some silly infatuation with an outlaw. Even one as beautiful as Mariah Ayers.
B. J. Daniels
#4. Bill Ayers, Frank Marshall Davis, Edward Said, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, and Jeremiah Wright. This is a group I've previously called Obama's founding fathers.
Dinesh D'Souza
#5. It wasn't that she believed in voodoo, precisely - but she believed in the people who believed in voodoo - and that was scary enough.
-Coralee Ayers
Caitlin Rush
#6. Foreboding, and an all too familiar lack of control, roiled in my gut. My opponent might be hungry for a win, but I was famished. Something in my life would be a victory.
Sorry Shark, I wasn't going down tonight. No chance. - Jason Ayers
Lisa Kessler
#7. I thought of myself as a revolutionary, committed to overturning the whole system of empire.1 BILL AYERS, PUBLIC ENEMY
Dinesh D'Souza
#8. Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.
Evan Sayet
#9. It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.
Jon Voight
#10. I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill Ayers, he had a very strong association with Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers is not someone that the average American wants to see their president have an association with.
Michele Bachmann
#11. Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.
Stephen Sondheim
#12. I've been to Australia a couple of times, but never to the north or the centre. I would love to see Ayers Rock.
Anthony Head
#13. Everything about Wesley Ayers is messy. My three worlds are kept apart by walls and doors and locks, and yet here he is, tracking the Archive into my life like mud. I know what Da would say, I know, I know, I know. But the strange new overlap is scary and messy and welcome. I can be careful.
Victoria Schwab
#14. Whether you're working with kindergartners or adults, 8th-graders or college students, you undertake what you do, as educator and activist William Ayers puts it, "with hope and purpose but without guarantees.
Gregory Michie
#15. The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it.
Bill Bryson
#16. I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York.
Roy Ayers
#17. I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.
Roy Ayers
#18. If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the literature of anti-communism, it's every bit as dogmatic.
Bill Ayers
#19. I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.
Bill Ayers
#20. When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.
Bill Ayers
#21. I get up every morning and think, today I'm going to make a difference. Today I'm going to end capitalism. Today I'm going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I'm back to work tomorrow, and that's the only way you can do it.
Bill Ayers
#22. To keep your love of running fresh, sign up for races and then don't take yourself or anyone around you too seriously.
Dana L. Ayers
#23. We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and the mythology that we create around ourselves, or we're doomed to kind of innocently blunder into every country in the world and murder people.
Bill Ayers
#24. Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!
Roy Ayers
#26. Editing is like attending a ten year reunion with your characters.
Stephanie Ayers
#27. My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her.
Akeem Ayers
#28. there's something satisfying and liberating about covering ground solely by moving our own bodies.
Dana L. Ayers
#29. I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.
Bill Ayers
#30. I can't write songs unless I am in love.
Kevin Ayers
#32. The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.
Kevin Ayers
#33. England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.
Kevin Ayers
#34. You see guys getting in trouble, but you also see the good in people. It's just a matter of always learning.
Akeem Ayers
#35. If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church, your pastor, your parents, common sense, tradition, everything. You would have been against everything.
Bill Ayers
#36. I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.
Bill Ayers
#37. Whether it's putting on a bunny costume and running with friends, or simply appreciating the whining coming out of the guy next to you, races offer moments when you can simply enjoy the people around you and feel happy.
Dana L. Ayers
#38. Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.
Roy Ayers
#39. The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a bigger military than the rest of the world put together. We have 150 foreign military bases.
Bill Ayers
#41. I'm different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I'm thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They're not different.
Bill Ayers
#42. I thought in 1965 that my job was to convince most Americans to be against the war. So I spent summers knocking on doors, handing out literature, trying to talk to people who didn't agree with me, trying to get them to see the war was wrong. And by 1968 a majority of Americans did oppose the war.
Bill Ayers
#43. Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.
Roy Ayers
#44. A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.
Roy Ayers
#45. The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.
Kevin Ayers
#46. When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.
Roy Ayers
#47. If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.
Kevin Ayers
#48. Just hearing crowds along the course cheering and ringing cowbells for you can make you want to keep racing.
Dana L. Ayers
#49. I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.
Bill Ayers
#50. Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer
a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.
Bill Ayers
#51. We have sex education - I'm for it, I'm not against it. But any curriculum should recognize that it's young people's job to invent it themselves. You're not going to teach them; they're going to reinvent it.
Bill Ayers
#52. When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.
Bill Ayers
#53. I saw a lot of people taking the wrong routes, coming up as a kid, just doing the wrong things.
Akeem Ayers
#54. I don't think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person.
Bill Ayers
#55. Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
Bill Ayers
#56. Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.
Roy Ayers
#57. The more you doubt your talent and strive to improve, the better the writer.
Stephanie Ayers
#59. Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
Bill Ayers
#60. Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.
Bill Ayers
#61. You are crazy," he says. "You are a crazy, amazing girl. And you scare the hell out of me." I smile.
Victoria Schwab
#62. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general.
Akeem Ayers
#63. I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.
Bill Ayers
#64. I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.
Roy Ayers
#66. Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.
Bill Ayers
#67. The US is indeed a terrorist nation ... It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.
Bill Ayers
#68. I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..
Bill Ayers
#69. The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.
Bill Ayers
#70. Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.
Roy Ayers
#71. Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
Bill Ayers
#72. I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
Bill Ayers
#73. To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much as you can, knowing that whatever you see is going to be partial. That you possess a partial consciousness in an infinite and expanding universe.
Bill Ayers
#74. The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.
Bill Ayers
#75. You've got to be a Lakers fan growing up in L.A. with all these championships.
Akeem Ayers
#76. These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.
Kevin Ayers
#77. There is a pivotal point in every interaction between humans which sets the course in their relationship. Do you hide or do you shine? Which way are you going to go?
Hide or shine?
Ava Ayers
#78. The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore.
Bill Ayers
#79. Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the war. And that's what we set out to do. What was not ended by the anti-war movement was ended by the Vietnamese. That's our shame.
Bill Ayers
#80. We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.
Bill Ayers
#81. And besides, if my soul's impeccable taste in music throws you off, then learn to tune me out.
Victoria Schwab
#82. I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.
Kevin Ayers
#83. People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.
Roy Ayers
#84. I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.
Bill Ayers
#85. I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.
Bill Ayers
#86. I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.
Roy Ayers
#87. Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
Bill Ayers
#88. People will always walk their own road and you cannot drag them onto yours. But, if you happen to wander into the path of a good person, you best take your mask off and shine or I promise, they will just walk on by.
Ava Ayers
#89. People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.
Roy Ayers
#90. I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part is the fiscal crisis.
Bill Ayers
#91. I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.
Bill Ayers
#92. I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.
Bill Ayers
#93. The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
Roy Ayers
#94. Golden Heart finalist in the prestigious RWA writing contest. Finalist in the International Digital Awards Semi-finalist in the Best Indie Books of 2012. A featured
E. Ayers
#96. I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
Bill Ayers
#97. If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.
Bill Ayers
#98. Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
Bill Ayers
#99. Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.
Bill Ayers
#100. I can see why my daughter likes you."
"Do you think she's falling for my dashing good looks, my charm, or the fact that I supply her with pastries?
Victoria Schwab
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