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Fifties Quotes & Sayings

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I swear to Go, if I see one of you girls anywhere near us, I'll have your prospective spouses whip you, fifties-style. — Amelie Fisher

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it. — Grace Paley

I love all vintage-everything, really. I love fashion. I've always loved it. And the fifties, I've always loved. — Elle Fanning

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere. — John Cleese

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here. — Tom Petty

The only time I've seen any rebellion was in the fifties, sixties and early seventies. The rest of it you can keep. — Lemmy Kilmister

In the fifties there were no paedophiles. There were only simple honest-to-goodness child molesters. — Ian Pattison

Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties. — Ian McEwan

The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence. — Pierce Brosnan

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations. — Rosemary Clooney

Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids. — Anne Hull

Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science. — Rick Perlstein

When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties! — Dennis Hopper

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties. — Nora Ephron

Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought. — Steve Sailer

In the fifties ... we were so busy being cool that we didn't know how to say the word love — Diane Di Prima

'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music. — Bruno Mars

My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties. — Kiki Dee

He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties ... broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties. — Derek Landy

I'm really a very fifties housewife. — Eva Longoria

I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement. — Kim Cattrall

Vegas; one of the few places still encouraging men in their fifties to dress like their in a boy-band from the 80's. — Dov Davidoff

Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working. — Mona Simpson

In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion. — Mario Testino

One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties. — Pete Seeger

Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy. — Rik Mayall

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists. — Martin Freeman

As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both. — Martin McGuinness

He was in his fifties. He'd wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who'd wasted only a few years. — Denis Johnson

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation. — Sara Sheridan

I wasn't like a Fifties dad. — Martin Freeman

The oldest of North Korean labor camps, Bukchang had been hosting dissidents and alleged enemies of the state since the fifties . — David Baldacci

Because it is so hard, some people wait until they are in their thirties, forties, fifties, or even older before breaking their silence. — Erin Merryn

In walked a woman whose attitude was certainly in its fifties if she was not. — Jess Lourey

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

When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now. — Anne Waldman

The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell. — Katey Sagal

The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. — Twyla Tharp

So I turned on the tube (throwback slang from the Nifty Fifties; televisions no longer have tubes) and channel-surfed for awhile. On — Stephen King

My father is Hungarian and moved to Britain during the uprising, and my Spanish mum comes from Galicia; they moved here at the end of the Fifties. — Anton Du Beke

Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going. — Sara Marie Hogg

He worked on it for over fifteen years before he died in his fifties of complications caused by pneumonia. — Liane Moriarty

I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is. — Richard Dreyfuss

He's more a shape in a drape than a hep cat — Sara Sheridan

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat. — John Malkovich

Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties. — Christopher Buckley

The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour. — Sara Sheridan

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets. — Umberto Eco

I fought for peace in the fifties. — Pete Seeger

Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices. — Robert Gottlieb

The hotel looked as though it had been built back in the fifties, when everything seemed designed to be quickly turned into a bomb shelter. — Carolyn McCray

The high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties. And I've been sold out ever since. — Tony Bennett

People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do. — Oscar Hijuelos

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background. — William Standish Knowles

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday. — Nastassja Kinski

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

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century! — Mary Augusta Ward

I think I'll be flavor of the month when I'm in my fifties. — Rosamund Pike

Towards the end of his life he became a Liberal of the type common in the forties and fifties. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

S'why I looove America: City Center's in ruins, there's a fifties creature on the loose, and a man can still get drunk. — Neil Gaiman

Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the radio stations played all types of music. — Ruben Blades