Fifties Quotes

I wasn't like a Fifties dad.

— Martin Freeman

I don't care about hundreds, fifties, averages.

— AB de Villiers

The nineteen fifties was a time of tumultuous change.

— Orson Bean

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

— Sara Sheridan

I fought for peace in the fifties.

— Pete Seeger

I'm really a very fifties housewife.

— Eva Longoria

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

Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices.

— Robert Gottlieb

Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties.

— Ian Mcewan

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

— Rosemary Clooney

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

— Young Jeezy

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

— Rosamund Pike

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

— Anne Waldman

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and…

— Jerry Saltz

How little those who are school-girls of to-day can realize what it was to be a school-girl in the fifties or the…

— Anonymous

“The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't happen every decade.…

— Sara Sheridan

In the late Fifties and early Sixties, I used to think that most of these fashion creators weren't that great, and if…

— William Klein

Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of…

— John Lahr

It's amazing, the quality of good work that happened in the fifties when a series would have to turn out 30-some episodes…

— Vince Gilligan

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

Music and fashion have had a kind of incestuous relationship since the Fifties. It started with people like Elvis Presley and pop…

— John Varvatos

That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were…

— Anne Taylor Fleming

“The utter wildness of the nineteen-fifties, a decade in which 100 new religions were formed, psychedelic drug experimentation was on an industrial…

— James Mahaffey

In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Edmund White

I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex…

— Elton John

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

— Duane Michals

“He turns toward the voice. It is as though the darkness itself has spoken. But when he looks closer he can make…

— Lucy Foley

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

— Sara Sheridan

“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

We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties.

— Randal Kleiser

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

— Twyla Tharp

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

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Valee

“The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour.”

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Steven Magee