Sixties Quotes

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

— Camille Paglia

I love the idea of the Swinging Sixties in London.

— Debra Stephenson

In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it.

— Cilla Black

Welcome to the sixties club.

— Anonymous

The '60s was a time of unthinkabilities.

— Mike Love

The late 1960s was another time and another world.

— Michael Portillo

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.

— Pam Grier

The '50s sucked for a lot of people on Earth.

— Bob Odenkirk

Somewhere in the '60s, actors became wimps and basket-case psychotics.

— Paul Morrissey

In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

— Baz Luhrmann

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

— Nora Ephron

I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties and remember how unpleasant all kinds of food could be then.

— Art Malik

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

— Cilla Black

“The sixties - most of which took place in the seventies...”

— John Thorndike

“Give my book The Sixties Girl a read. You'll love it. You'll laugh, cry and find yoursel wanting more.”

— Victoria Staat

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

— Yoko Ono

Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of…

— Jack Bruce

I really love a lot of early Sixties R&B, rock n' roll, and I love performing songs that have that power and…

— Johnny Flynn

During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole…

— Yvon Chouinard

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing…

— Marlo Thomas

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to…

— Julie Burchill

The Beatles were great; we know that. But we were trying to do a new thing. Why do we need to recreate…

— Ian Brown

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

— John Lydon

How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early…

— John Hurt

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

— Willie Herron

We didn't have cable growing up. We had these three upper channels that played all reruns, so I would see episodes from…

— Edi Patterson

In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle,…

— Dan Hill

It is undeniable that the French were in a better situation in 1960s then than they are today in 2017. I don't…

— Marine Le Pen

Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment…

— Joan Didion

In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry,…

— Tom Brokaw

The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Their expectations, however, had grown grand indeed, and they were impatient. Increasingly, they sought not only benefits but also guarantees and entitlements.…

— James T. Patterson

The 1960s was probably the first time in history that young people were recognized as a big group of consumers and as…

— Doris Lessing

“The sixties have a reputation for being open and free and cool, but the reality was that everybody was straight. Everybody was…

— Legs McNeil

“Everybody was pissed off in those days, but there were no socially acceptable outlets for hostility. "Hostile" was a word you heard…

— Albert Goldman

Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted…

— Pat Buchanan

In the Sixties, it was mods and rockers, and hippies and casuals, whereas in the early Eighties, there was Goths, punks, mods,…

— Shane Meadows

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love Not…

— Margot Kidder

We are here to make a better world. No amount of rationalization or blaming can preempt the moment of choice each of…

— Abbie Hoffman

The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand…

— Michael Foley