I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when…

Growing up in the 1960s, I can't remember a time when I wasn't fascinated by airplanes and rockets.

— Leroy Chiao

In the 1960s everybody knew about Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies. No matter what class people belonged to, they were talking about these two…

— Arlene Phillips

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

— Alison Bechdel

My high school years were fun and frustrating, typical of the teen years. The most important accomplishment was meeting my wife, Ruth.

— Alan J. Heeger

I am a typical teen who likes to shop, sing karaoke, spend time with family and friends, answer my www.myspace.com e-mails

— Paula DeAnda

Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer…

— Michael Beschloss

I was never bothered about my position in the industry. If I had believed in it, I wouldn't have allowed anyone to get ahead…

— Dharmendra

“A friend once told me a story about a former Black Panther leader in a Midwest community who in the 1960s had his phone…

— Luis J. Rodríguez

I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of…

— Max Brooks

Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was…

— Susan Griffin

[In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit.

— Betsey Johnson

Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail.…

— Edward Kennedy

Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -…

— Michael Dirda

Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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