1960s Quotes
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When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
— Vanessa Carlton
greatest films ever made originate largely in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s - a period when Hollywood worked
— Ben Shapiro
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
— Kamala Harris
My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought up in that atmosphere.
— Madeleine Peyroux
Becoming is better than being
— Carol S. Dweck
The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
— Yoko Ono
Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.
— J. B. Pritzker
In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.
— Michael Steinhardt
I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.
— Etheridge Knight
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
— Robert Darnton
Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics.
— George Akerlof
The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.
— Nick Johnson
In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.
— Peggy Fleming
The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated.
— Volkmar Sigusch
An idea sparked in the 1960s, a thought experiment, an amusing haiku, is now a thing of metal and glass.
— Janna Levin
We found the Plaza Mayor, an odd square with an elegant baroque town hall on one side, and ugly 1960s blocks on the other three. A
— Jason Webster
As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.
— Andrew Weil
That's why people require travel books on the 1960s, I thought. They want to go there. They want to feel that sun on their backs.
— Roger Hutchinson
Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?
— Karl Lagerfeld
Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.
— Stella Young
I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.'
— Maurice Flanagan
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
— Noam Chomsky
Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
— Madison Smartt Bell
Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
— Hal Stratton
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.
— Julian Bond
The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.
— James Grant
Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.
— Sally Kirkland
I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.
— Christopher Hitchens
In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.
— Noam Chomsky
A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country would sink giggling into the sea.
— John O'Sullivan
I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.
— Lawrence Wright
I was brought up by parents who embraced the 1960s and taught me that being faithful isn't the be-all and end-all.
— Marie Helvin
I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.
— Christophe Honore
Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.
— Lucinda Williams
In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.
— Edmund Phelps
Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this.
— Valeria Lukyanova
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
— Edgar Mitchell
The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.
— Terence McKenna
I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Republican, as was my mother, in Virginia.
— Edward Brooke
I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars.
— Jasmine Guinness
Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.
— Phil Bredesen
I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style.
— Kristoffer Rygg
I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
We tried to change Vietnam. Instead, Vietnam changed us.
— Tony Thomson
Hollywood style means classic glamour. My reference is the 1940s through the 1960s.
— Kelly Wearstler
Anyone who lived through the 1960s should have known that the younger generation wins.
— Rebecca Traister
I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
— Abbie Hoffman
I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
— Daniel Clowes
In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.
— Elizabeth Warren
People who, like me, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II, grew up with cars.
— Martin Winterkorn
During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.
— Andy Warhol
I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.
— Robert Pattinson
For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.
— Mike McCurry
As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.
— Maureen O'Hara
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
— Alison Bechdel
The fights for media justice and racial justice have been intertwined since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
— Marvin Ammori
Women were invented ages ago, before the 1960s, because God realised very quickly that Adam needed an audience for his jokes.
— Bridget Christie
I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.
— David Suchet
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I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
— David Bailey
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
— Camille Paglia
Our population has doubled since the 1960s while wild animal populations have dropped by a third.
— Sue Donaldson
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
— Jonathan Sacks
Make love and make it again
— Anouk Markovits
The Phillies in the 1960s had shortstop Bobby Wine and second baseman Cookie Rojas, a period known as the Days of Wine and Rojas.
— Tim Kurkjian
In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
— Harold E. Varmus
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
— Ken Livingstone
In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.
— Howard Schultz
In the 1950s and 1960s, it was a safe assumption that nearly everyone in your office had watched the same thing the previous night.
— Chris Anderson
Though some student activists of the 1960s may have idolized Alinsky, he didn't particularly idolize them.
— Bill Dedman
Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
— Camille Paglia
I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
— Gary Wright
I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s.
— Stanley Bing
Anytime someone says we're channelling 1960s, I'm like, I'm in, I love it.
— Lindsay Ellingson
It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s.
— Edward Hirsch
If you look at 'Mad Men,' it's set in the wrong decade. The style of Mad Men is really the 1950s, not the 1960s.
— Jerry Della Femina
no smallpox vaccinations have been given worldwide since 1980, and in some countries like the USA, since the 1960s.
— Michael B.A. Oldstone
Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s. — Sheldon Whitehouse
I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
— Alexander Payne
