Quotes About 1950s America

#1. Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.

Mohsin Hamid

#2. It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved

Tibor R. Machan

#3. Only as long as one did what one always did would one remain relatively invisible.

Lene Kaaberbol

#4. I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

Kay Granger

#5. In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'

Edmund White

#6. When Billie Holiday came15 to London in the 1950s, she was amazed. They "are civilized about it and they have no narcotics problem at all," she explained. "One day America is going to smarten up and do the

Johann Hari

#7. By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie.

Robert Reich

#8. I hate to fly. I'm deathly afraid of it.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#9. Happiness is a series of grains of sand spread out in a desert of violence and anguish.

Sebastien De Castell

#10. I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories are of being a girl in those post-war years when things were really pretty grim. It wasn't like that in America, which was real boom time.

Laurie Graham

#11. It also demonstrated that far from being an impediment, knowledge is an asset to feminine charm.

Robert F. Young

#12. Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!'

Anna Chlumsky

#13. I always tell young people in particular, "Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s, or '60s, or '70s."

Barack Obama

#14. Mama is funny. She has a great sense of humor and loves a good joke. Loves a practical joke, too.

Reba McEntire

#15. Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#16. In the 1950s and '60s the [democrat] party included many obviously earnest and thoughtful liberals who supported goals that were in line with and expressions of serious beliefs. They believed that America was an exceptional country.

Peggy Noonan

#17. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness

Charlie Chaplin

#18. Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.

Christopher Heyerdahl

#19. I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

Jean Racine

#20. I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.

Bill Bryson

#21. Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

William Hazlitt

#22. If you mix with people who are at a higher level of success than you, then they will pull you up to their level

Steven Aitchison

#23. Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#24. Texas senator and tea party favorite Ted Cruz announced he's running for president. He pledged to lead America boldly forward into the 1950s.

Conan O'Brien

#25. I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?

Alexander Koch