The Sixties Quotes

The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on. — Nancy Reagan

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

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

My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them. — Kelly Wearstler

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. — Ellen Willis

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal. — John Lennon

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten. — Hunter S. Thompson

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. — David Foster Wallace

Give my book The Sixties Girl a read. You'll love it. You'll laugh, cry and find yourself wanting more. — Victoria Staat

It should have been the epiphany of the sixties. Instead it turned out to be its requiem, — David Winner

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. — W. Somerset Maugham

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands. — Jon Fishman

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now. — John Schlesinger

One of the things that fascinates me most about the toys of the Sixties and Seventies is that they were characters without stories, as such. — Chris Roberson

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there. — Paul Kantner

As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties. — Klaus Schulze

To continue what one had been doing
which was Dante's idea of hell
is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties. — Carolyn G. Heilbrun

That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people. — George Harrison

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

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions. — Audre Lorde

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

I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position. — Miuccia Prada

There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy. — Sean Wilsey

The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons. — Jimmy Carter

I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again. — Marianne Williamson

Have they built cities on the moon?" another boy asked hopefully.
"We left some garbage and a flag there in the sixties, but thats about it. — Ransom Riggs

If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties. — Gene Roddenberry

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more. — J. Courtney Sullivan

The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground. — Dennis Hopper

In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk. — Veruschka Von Lehndorff

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special. — Marc Maron

Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up. — John Lennon

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. — Bob Dylan

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past. — Paul McCartney

In the Sixties, conglomerates were all the rage. — Jim Pattison

I had other priorities in the sixties than military service. — Dick Cheney

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles. — Aaron Copland

I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person. — Bill Ayers

Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful. — Khaled Hosseini

In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it. — Cilla Black

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. — Dave Barry

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema. — Michael Winner

The Stones were more dangerous than other bands of the Sixties. It looked like they had more fun than the Beatles - like they stayed up later. — Alex Lifeson

The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility. — Jon Landau

My uncle missed the sixties. Not because he was too young. He just simply slept through them. — Jarod Kintz

The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience. — Douglas Coupland

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom. — Terry Pratchett

I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything. — Britt Ekland

It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air. — Ozzy Osbourne

In the sixties, dear Bill, we did not say 'top' and 'bottom' - we said 'pitcher' and 'catcher' ... — John Irving

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

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun. — John Lydon

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. — Henry A. Kissinger

I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties. — Paul Merton

Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however. — Cathleen Schine

Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence. — Mary Quant

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun. — Tama Janowitz

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes. — Yoko Ono

But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair. — Ronnie Spector

Bright men in narrow neckties and short haircuts whose terrible optimism made the sixties such an admirable and disappointing time. — Michael Chabon

If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. — Robin Williams

I was in college in the sixties when movies really got good. I'm a fan of Bergman and Hitchcock and Polanski and Antonioni. Those are my gods. — David Small

The sixties - most of which took place in the seventies... — John Thorndike

I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself. — Penelope Tree

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art. — Arne Glimcher

And feigned innocence, the vise that keeps women "girls" well into their sixties. — Frances Mayes

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. — Camille Paglia

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. — Jerry Garcia

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties. — David Bailey

In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body. — Nick Nolte

I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. — Coco Austin

I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in. — Ishmael Reed

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas. — David Bailey

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. — John Lennon

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that. — Cilla Black

You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead. — Snoop Dogg

In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework. — Lynn Coady

He met her on 26 December 1969, five days before the end of the sixties, when he was twenty-two and she was twenty-one. — Salman Rushdie

You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country. — Julian Barnes

Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone? — Joan Baez

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page. — Jerry Saltz

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on. — Martin Mull

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent. — John Connally

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

A woman in her late sixties described her new iPhone: it's like having a little time square in my pocketbook. All lights. All the people I could meet. — Sherry Turkle

Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all. — David Horowitz

In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal. — Damon Albarn

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up. — Craig Charles

Of course, I remember when everybody was thin. It wasn't until I went to America in the Sixties that I saw anyone who wasn't skinny thin. — Mary Quant

The ... office was decorated in early American Earth Mother, with spider plants, hemp wall tapestries, and beeswax candles. — Karen Neches

The worst thing the nineteen sixties did to this country was introduce drugs to rednecks, — Ron Rash

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things ... ! — Twiggy

I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs. — Joan Baez

I have a rotary phone from the sixties, it take forever to dial, which keeps me from making impulsive calls. — Natalie Standiford

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services. — John Le Carre

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship. — John Lennon

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam. — Nguyen Cao Ky

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political. — Joe Dante

I'm a child of the Sixties. — Ian McShane

I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties - the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today. — Mary Quant