Fifties Quotes

You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed. - Cybill Shepherd

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile. - George Burns

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War. - Robert Jay Lifton

Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War. - Ann Druyan

We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties. - Randal Kleiser

We are first time parents and we're in our fifties. - Mary Long

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. - David Foster Wallace

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. - Hannah Arendt