1950s Quotes

You might end up with a Venus that's quite a lot like people thought it was going to be in the 1950s. - Fred Taylor

You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested. - Howie Carr

You can live off your income if you lived the way people did in the 1950s. - David Wyss

Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs. - Cathy McMorris

WQRL Radio will play 1950s and 60s music specifically for the car show. This is the third year they have offered to provide music that they normally don't play on the air. We will hear more Beach Boys and Motown music than is usually sent over the airwaves. - Steve Woodfin

When you say science, people have a certain image of facilities. Science is not an old building from the 1950snot these days. - Al Williams

When this part of Tioga was realigned in the late 1950s... the road was built on the south side of the dome. - Jim Snyder

When the inn remodeled in the 1950s, tons of Arts and Crafts furnishings were just thrown out or given away. Now they're so collectible, Grove Park Inn antiques have a category on eBay. - Bruce Johnson

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. - Donald Johanson

When the East Coast is in a snarl, it takes days to recover, because we're using a 1950s system in controlling those aircraft. - David Castelveter