Sixty Quotes

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[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishmanâ€™s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
My parents were sixty years married. — Roddy Doyle
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product. — George Wald
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
My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight. — Billy Carter
The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918 to 1957! Solzhenitsyn… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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
I'm a child of the Sixties. — Ian McShane
It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do. — Anthony Trollope
Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks. They are not… — Jennifer James
Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue… — Philip Roth
I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun. — Tama Janowitz
What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the… — Bernardo Bertolucci
The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive,… — Norman Tebbit
And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like… — Olga Korbut
The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public, as… — Greil Marcus
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would… — Augusten Burroughs
It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed. — Michael Behe

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