Best Half Century Quotes

46 Half Century quotes by 44 unique authors

• A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin. — Frances Parkinson Keyes
• At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been… — Charles Lindbergh
• Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history. — John Bruton
• We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may… — Bill McKibben
• I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal… — Theodore Roosevelt
• Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but… — Theodore Roosevelt
• Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a… — David Frost
• In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite… — Will Self
• We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive. — Neale Donald Walsch
• contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century. — Nick Hornby
• Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance,… — Jeffrey Eugenides
• Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor. — Jimmy Carter
• After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there. — Henri Matisse
• I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fatigue that America has endured over the last… — Michael Eric Dyson
• For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin… — Thomas Steinbeck
• There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and… — Arthur Erickson
• I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of… — James Meade
• I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and… — Robert Byrd
• English girls' schools to-day providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards… — Mary A Ward
• Me stash box never empty. The fifty dollar bag we call that half century. Me start me own herb documentary. Bermy man a call that… — Collie Buddz
• Freud's most radical legacy is the one that is the least actualized. After years of evolution on the topic, he came to the conclusion that… — Alexandria Watson

Who Wrote These Half Century Quotes

44 authors contributed a total of 46 Half Century Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Half Century Quotes by Unknown Author
• 2 Half Century Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
• 1 Half Century Quote by Will Self
• 1 Half Century Quote by Thomas Steinbeck
• 1 Half Century Quote by Robert Byrd
• 1 Half Century Quote by Robert Bork
• 1 Half Century Quote by Ralph Neas
• 1 Half Century Quote by Phyllis McGinley
• 1 Half Century Quote by Paul Kurtz
• 1 Half Century Quote by Nick Hornby
• 1 Half Century Quote by Neale Donald Walsch
• 1 Half Century Quote by Michael Shermer
• 1 Half Century Quote by Michael Eric Dyson
• 1 Half Century Quote by Meredith Willson
• 1 Half Century Quote by Mary Augusta Ward
• 1 Half Century Quote by Mary A Ward
• 1 Half Century Quote by Martin Luther King III
• 1 Half Century Quote by Lord Mountbatten
• 1 Half Century Quote by Lester R. Brown
• 1 Half Century Quote by Kenzaburo Oe
• 1 Half Century Quote by John Bruton
• 1 Half Century Quote by Jimmy Carter
• 1 Half Century Quote by Jerry Saltz
• 1 Half Century Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides
• 1 Half Century Quote by James Meade