America Quote by Michael Light

Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of…

— Jerry Lewis

“postwar America. He learned the insurance business by day and braille by night. Before long the VA found him a job with an elderly…

— Tom Brokaw

“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac

“There was a more personal form of fragmentation that plagued postwar America, too—a sense that all the paper-pushing and file cabinets had divided workers…

— Franklin Foer

Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no…

— Tim Curry

I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan.

— Jay Garner

From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket…

— Kim Young-ha

“Most of the institutions that come in to offer help after disaster don't have the resources to provide concrete help. . . . Donor…

— Leymah Gbowee

The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath -…

— Lynne Reid Banks

The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of…

— Barry Ritholtz

“I’m a postwar child, Kate. We don’t talk up our achievements, and we don’t throw things away. It’s how we were brought up.”

— Rachel Joyce

We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around,…

— Herbert Muschamp