Fifties Quotes

Even with Yorkshire I had 19 fifties before I got my first hundred.

— Jonny Bairstow

I'm really a very fifties housewife.

— Eva Longoria

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

— Hannah Arendt

I fought for peace in the fifties.

— Pete Seeger

“He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat”

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Rosamund Pike

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

— Todd Haynes

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

— Roger Moore

I'd love to be a NASCAR driver because they're, like, in their forties and fifties.

— Valee

“The nice thing about dating in your fifties is the people that are going to age well are easy to spot!”

— Steven Magee

I'm in my fifties now. That's still a shock when I say it out loud, because I don't feel any different to…

— Tess Daly

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

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Twyla Tharp

I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think…

— Kim Cattrall

When I was growing up in the Forties and Fifties, you could hide your children from the difficulties of life, but today…

— Michael Morpurgo

My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated…

— Dylan McDermott

I am lucky because I can - and I like to - mix the beautiful Caraceni jackets I inherited from my grandfather…

— Lapo Elkann

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

— Robert Gottlieb

I'm known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it's definitely a factor in my success. I…

— John Caudwell

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

— Chuck Berry

During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important…

— Nguyen Cao Ky

Your fifties are often a time for self-reflection, when people question how happy they are at an age when they're still young…

— Coleen Nolan

Here's an irony of the history of conservatism's relationship with business and business's relationship with conservatism: 'Wall Street' used to be the…

— Rick Perlstein

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers…

— Wilbur Smith

In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest…

— Eavan Boland

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

— Edmund White

“EACH RECRIMINATIVE DECADE POSES NEW riddles, how best to live, how best to write. One's fifties, in principle less acceptable than one's…

— Anthony Powell

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

— John Updike

“In the doorway of Fortnum & Mason a young couple were kissing, oblivious to the world. The neon signs mounted on the…

— Sara Sheridan

That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

— Peter Marino

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

— Rosemary Clooney

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

— Kiki Dee

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

Fifties over here, twenties over there. You know the rest, nigga, fives and singles everywhere.

— Young Jeezy

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

— Martin Freeman

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

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

— Anne Waldman

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

— Amanda Redman

There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.

— Kevin Sessums

If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain,…

— Larry Hagman