Ann Turner Quotes

The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times.

Ann Turner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 10, 1945

Topics

FamilyCourageHistoryDepressionMe

I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo! realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation.

Jerry Yang

TechnologyInnovationExcellenceHelp

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

Robert Rauschenberg

Black And WhiteTimeMePaintingYou

I can't remember in 1980 who I voted for. I wish I could tell you.

Jeff Greene

WishRememberYouI WishTellWho

I hope my daughter will be able to see shows starring Asian people that has nothing to do with an Asian story.

Ruthie Ann Miles

DaughterHopePeopleStoryNothing

What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.

Michael Moore

NewKnowOrderEconomicAskingHow

I was reading at a third-grade level until the age of 30 before I made the decision that I was going to learn how to read.

Diamond Dallas Page

AgeDecisionReadingLearnGoing

I wanted to be a performer, not someone who introduced other performers.

Brian Dunkleman

SomeoneWhoWantedOtherPerformers

I like jokes, but Ray and I, we never did jokes. We weren't in that line of humor. We each contributed our own kind of observations. I'm glad to have people look at and laugh at and respect and get some creative juice out of what we did by observing.

Bob Elliott

RespectHumorCreativePeopleLaugh

While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.

Allen West

ServiceDayPlanningThinkCountry

Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.

Winslow Homer

GoodMomentI AmPaintingThinkAm

Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely lacking.

Phil Klay

WarAmericanConversationSerious

Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with.

Paul Theroux

LifeWorkYouLettersWayOwn

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