Top Fifties Quotes
One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.
Pete Seeger
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
Hannah Arendt
In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.
Mary Wesley
Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.
William Standish Knowles
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.
Pete Seeger
Elizabeth Hardwick 
Cybill Shepherd 
Nastassja Kinski 
Jackson Browne 
Orson Scott Card 
Warren Farrell All Fifties Quotes
One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.
Pete Seeger 
61% of people like this quote
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
Hannah Arendt
61% of people like this quote
In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.
Mary Wesley
58% of people like this quote
Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.
William Standish Knowles
58% of people like this quote
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.
Pete Seeger
55% of people like this quote
It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
Warren Farrell
55% of people like this quote
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 remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.
Ann Druyan
54% of people like this quote
I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.
Rosemary Clooney
53% of people like this quote
Popular Fifties Authors
Hannah ArendtAudre LordeOrson Scott CardJackson BrowneAugusten BurroughsMary WesleyNastassja KinskiDavid Foster WallaceWarren FarrellPete Seeger
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