1960s Quotes · Page 5

I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

— Sally Kirkland

When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.

— Robert Vaughn

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

— John E. Walker

The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.

— James Grant

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

— Bruce Springsteen

In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.

— Peter Diamandis

In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.

— Michael Steinhardt

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

— Lucinda Williams

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years…

— Camille Paglia

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is…

— Jane Goodall

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

— Brian Eno

I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You…

— Dries van Noten

Trump channeled ethno-populist rage as naturally and charismatically as George Wallace had during the 1960s, while seating a billionaire cabinet.

— Joy Reid

Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the…

— Richard Peto

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies…

— Carol P. Christ

Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't…

— Warren Farrell

One of the most striking trends, since at least the 1960's, has been for employment in services to grow far more rapidly…

— Peter Dicken

We should feel an urgency about our environment and what's been done to it by human action and inaction. I wouldn't say…

— Jeff VanderMeer

In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed…

— Katherine Dunn

The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985…

— Manmohan Singh

I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

As a young kid I was in love with breakdancing. I practiced the uprock style, which is a battle style of dance…

— Jose Parla

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument…

— Peter L. Berger

My dad and mom were more like World War II-era parents, even though it was the 1960s, because they were both born…

— Dan Savage

On this side of the Atlantic, the arrival of a new Woody Allen movie is always greeted with tremors of bliss by…

— Joe Queenan

Modern presidential debating only started with Richard Nixon and John F.Kennedy in 1960, although the proximity of that to the Lincoln-Douglas centennial…

— Allen C. Guelzo

“My generation has a giddy delight in dissolution. [...] To inspire the unsophisticated young to demand "change" is an easy and a…

— David Mamet

I think it is a must for young people and generations yet to come, to understand, to feel, to touch, to almost…

— John Lewis

“In the sixties, the Commune emerged as a riposte to the nuclear family. This was an autonomic re-creation of not only preindustrial,…

— David Mamet

“I know it's become fashionable to depict the police as sadistic Cossacks riding down innocent citizens, but I've become well enough acquainted…

— Truman Capote

Sometimes the sight of someone in one faith wrestling with that faith can empower you to wrestle with another faith. For me,…

— Jonathan Sacks

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s

— Vanessa Carlton

Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

— Phil Bredesen

Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.

— J. B. Pritzker

Anytime someone says we're channelling 1960s, I'm like, I'm in, I love it.

— Lindsay Ellingson

The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.

— Terence McKenna

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

— Jim Lehrer

I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.

— Christophe Honore

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event

— Peggy Fleming