Bill Ayers Quotes

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.

I think I'm very old-fashioned.

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.

I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.

I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn't just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler music, but my parents had the Burt Bacharach, Tom Jones, the Association, the Fifth Dimension; these groups were un-cool, but I secretly loved them.

Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

I am ridiculously old-fashioned.

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

I grew up in the '70s, when people talked on the phone - and just talked more. I remember the phone was the epicenter of our house. I spent hours every evening as a teenager waiting for the phone to ring and talking to my friends.

'Family Ties,' to me, was strictly '80s. It was from the beginning of the '80s until the end of the '80s, and it was very specific to that time. Ronald Reagan was president.

I meet a lot of people that grew up with my career and have retired, and I just want to talk to them. I like to get a feeling from them, a feeling of the old times.

As I was finishing high school, 'Fresh Prince' was, by far, out front. The generation before me, it may have been the Huxtables, but for me and my homies, Fresh Prince.