Fifties Quotes

I fought for peace in the fifties.

— Pete Seeger

I'm really a very fifties housewife.

— Eva Longoria

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

— AB de Villiers

I wasn't like a Fifties dad.

— Martin Freeman

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

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

— Peter Marino

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

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

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

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

— Randal Kleiser

“I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity…

— Sara Sheridan

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

Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was…

— Rik Mayall

You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was…

— Robyn Davidson

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records.

— Jimmy Page

Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to…

— Mary Quant

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

One of the great things about the Fifties is there are so many secrets - people who've come back from the war…

— Sara Sheridan

The fifties were pretty rebellious, a pretty rebellious period, around that time. And it was preceding the whole zoot suit thing which…

— Willie Herron

The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a…

— Andie MacDowell

I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very…

— Cherie Lunghi

“And for those like Norma and Macky, born and raised in the forties and fifties, it was such a drastic change from…

— Fannie Flagg

Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make…

— Sally Potter

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost…

— Jackson Browne

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

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

— John Updike

“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

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

— Sara Sheridan

In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion.

— Mario Testino

I've enjoyed all my times, teens, twenties, thirties, forties, and now I'm enjoying my fifties.

— Shaun Ryder

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

— Roger Moore

In the fifties… we were so busy being cool that we didn’t know how to say the word love

— Diane di Prima

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

— Todd Haynes

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

— Jonny Bairstow

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

— Kevin Sessums