When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I…

I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s. Discrimination isn’t something that’s easy to oppose.…

— Tim Cook

When President Kennedy set us on a path to the Moon in the 1960s, he knew exactly why - to produce a photo-op that…

— Rick Tumlinson

From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they…

— Harold E. Varmus

No one ever expect me to get in the race. They didn't think I would get on the debate stage. I did. They didn't…

— John Kasich

It was only when I went down south that I started to eat, sleep and breathe football.

— Robert Snodgrass

“Her sense of humor went south about a minute after I tied her up.”

— Peter Straub

I grew up in west London, but my dad wouldn't let me go to school there, so I went in south London.

— Edward Enninful

We went across the South on Super Tuesday without a single catcall or boo, without a single ugly sign. Not until we got to…

— Jesse Jackson

I always had good skin as a little kid, but when I turned 25, everything just went south.

— Amber Liu

“My father went south once, to answer the summons of a king. He never came home again.”

— George R.R. Martin

[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