1960s Quotes

The late 1960s was another time and another world.

— Michael Portillo

My makeup hasn't really changed since the 1960s!

— Betsey Johnson

I will always defend 1960s football.

— Eusebio

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

— Davy Jones

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

— Christopher Hitchens

For three weeks in the 1960s I was nearly a pop star.

— Bernard Cribbins

I was born and grew up in China during the 1960s.

— Li Lu

Hillary Clinton was a cute, smart chick in the 1960s.

— Gene Weingarten

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

— George Stigler

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

— Etheridge Knight

My mother-in-law trained as a nurse in a 1960s gynae ward.

— Joanna Page

I guess the worst snow was the Kennedy inauguration in 1960. Heavy snow.

— Bob Schieffer

I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s.

— Danny Brown

In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called ‘I can like something worse than you can like.’

— Denise Scott Brown

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

— Douglass North

In the 1960s, if you could save $500, you had enough to move to another city and start a new life.

— John Waters

Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s,…

— Michelle Alexander

Boutique hotels are great, but they get too cute. Some hotels have shoe polish. It's like, come on, this isn't 1960. No…

— Jim Gaffigan

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

“The 1960s ended sadly, as did Bonnie and Clyde, as did Jules and Jim, as did Thelma & Louise, a film they…

— Roger Ebert

I reject this idea that who Bernie Sanders was in the 1960s is irrelevant. Who you are and what you do, what…

— Shaun King

Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the…

— Tom Folsom

In the 1960s, songs were an integral part of film narration. I have been fortunate to have had some of the best…

— Waheeda Rehman

Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have…

— Valeria Lukyanova

One of the basic philosophical tenets of conservatism - which says that the more power devolves from the federal government to the…

— Steve Erickson

I live in a country where, at least by my sense of arithmetic and justice, Al Gore should have been president, not…

— David Remnick

I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation…

— Sy Montgomery

The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s…

— Boy George

I'm quite good at water skiing. Dave Clark, from the 1960s band Dave Clark Five, taught me how to water ski in…

— Tony Blackburn

Intellectuals and celebrities venerated monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, & Ho Chi Minh. The New Left of the 1960s didn't have…

— Jamie Glazov

The 1960s and 1970s were the real years for independent film, because they were really independent. Plus, there were hundreds of distributors.…

— John Landis

1960, I was 20 years old, and I was leading the U.S. Open. Now, I wasn't leading by several strokes, but I…

— Jack Nicklaus

But strangely, [in] the original Matt Helm books, he's just this super hardass assassin. They sort of made it into a sexy…

— Adam Reed

Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private…

— L. Neil Smith

“Positive legacy of the 1960s was the revolutions in civil rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, and gay rights, which began to consolidate…

— Steven Pinker

In the 1960s, various parts of the population became energized and began to enter the public arena to call for the rights…

— Noam Chomsky

Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right…

— Noam Chomsky

There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the…

— Carroll Quigley

Expression is never considered a given, and it is in fact maybe not what's most interesting about making art. Making art, since…

— Kurt Ralske

The record business is an oxymoron. In the 1960s, there was an upside to selling plastic discs so labels took the risk…

— Tom Silverman