Sixties Quotes

156 quotes by 136 authors

Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all. — David Horowitz
Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were.… — Louis Menand
Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of… — Camille Paglia
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported… — Barney Frank
None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of… — Chalmers Johnson
I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the… — Paul McCartney
During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those… — Yvon Chouinard
In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special. — Marc Maron
I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything. — Britt Ekland
I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are… — David Oyelowo
After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because I believe that… — William Kunstler
But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook… — Ronnie Spector
That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now. — John Schlesinger
Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's… — Ann Druyan
Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for… — P.J. O'Rourke
The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at… — Carolyn Heilbrun
In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking about each others… — Diana Trilling
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of… — Joan Didion
Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of… — John Lahr
There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we… — Sonny Rollins

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