50s Dad Quotes

#1. My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

Willard Scott

#2. My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

John Cusack

#3. My dad grew up in Pittsburgh in the '50s, and he used to sing Four Seasons songs on the stoop. He made me listen to Cousin Brucie - the guy who broke the Four Seasons on the radio. So I knew all of their songs, but I didn't know they were all by the same group.

Erich Bergen

#4. Life calls the tune, we dance.

John Galsworthy

#5. Keystone would allow us to transport 700,000 barrels of oil a day from our northern neighbor Canada to refineries in the United States.

John Barrasso

#6. Your perception is your reality.

Rita Cragwall

#7. I've waited a long time to be part of a franchise like this [the Yankees].

Mark Teixeira

#8. Love is an affair of credulity.

Ovid

#9. My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.

Robert Englund

#10. Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.

Tariq Ramadan

#11. There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

Cecelia Ahern

#12. You don't believe in second chances, Cole,"
"But you do, and I think we've already established you're the smart one here.

Elle Aycart

#13. It's easier to shape a child than to repair an adult.

Tony Evans

#14. When man spoke his first word he became the thread that quivers eternally between evil and goodness, Heaven and Hell.

Jon Kalman Stefansson

#15. I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.

April Winchell

#16. My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.

Farrah Fawcett

#17. The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

Zac Hanson