1960s Quote by P. J. O'Rourke Download Open image “I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.” — P. J. O'Rourke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1960s 1960S Generation Any Decade Generation Generation Didn Member Member 1960S Wisdom
How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it? — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
People are always asking me about the '60s, like I should be some sort of expert. It's like being in the middle of a… — Rita Tushingham Copy Share Image
“The lack of wisdom in our present society poses a critical threat to the quality of our lives. A substantial disconnect exists in our… — Rick Rigsby Copy Share Image
My parents joined in the 60s and at that time it was really important - there was a group mentality. I could be pulling… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I grew up in the 1970s, and my friends and I felt very keenly that we had missed the '60s. We were bummed out… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there. — Paul Kantner Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s. — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail.… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
[In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit. — Betsey Johnson Copy Share Image
Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“A friend once told me a story about a former Black Panther leader in a Midwest community who in the 1960s had his phone… — Luis J. Rodríguez Copy Share Image
I was never bothered about my position in the industry. If I had believed in it, I wouldn't have allowed anyone to get ahead… — Dharmendra Copy Share Image
Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by their words,… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to know… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
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