Alive Quote by Bill Bryson

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

— Noam Chomsky

The world loves the 1950s.

— Sara Sheridan

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce…

— Barack Obama

Some people would like the world to go back to the 1950s.

— William M. Daley

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system,…

— Fareed Zakaria

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in…

— Alice Walker

The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.

— Chris Isaak

In the 1950s and 1960s, an explosion of great corporate jobs, together with a restricted supply of labor, produced healthy wage growth.

— Edward Conard

The 60s were a continuation of the 50s much more than people realized. Certainly in some countries, like Britain, there was still a culture…

— Tony Judt

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

— Ben Gibbard

As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say…

— Robert Crumb

“Probably no country has ever had as large a shift in the distribution of wealth [as what we've seen in the U.S. in the…

— Lester Thurow