I fought for peace in the fifties.

In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there…

— Yoko Ono

“Their true characters were shown not in the war they fought, but in the peace they made.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Wars are never won, they’re only fought.”

— Scott Hildreth

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

— Rosamund Pike

Lana Turner taught me how to kiss on the set of the movie 'Diane' in the early Fifties.

— Roger Moore

People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows.…

— Duane Michals

I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the…

— Edmund White

In the Fifties, there were certain places we couldn't ride on the bus, and now there is a possibility of a black man being…

— Chuck Berry

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

— Hannah Arendt

“In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their fifties.”

— Steven Magee

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

— Twyla Tharp

My mum and grandmother didn't start their menopause until their early fifties.

— Amanda Redman

When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius…

— Robert Gottlieb

It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties.

— Todd Haynes

“Of course, there is a little more to it than that. We of the frailer sex have to have some wild hope, something to…

— John Updike