#fifties

Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going." Catho Darlington in the book Catho Darlington--Lessons Learned in the Space Age ↗

— Sara Marie Hogg

#cool #elementary-school #hideouts #hula-hoops #middle-america

It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret. ↗

— David Kynaston

#britain #drinking #fifties #home #television

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#fifties #know #these #you

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

#cold #cold war #dealt #even #feel

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#fifties #forgotten #got #i #involved

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#around #began #college #college students #contained

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

#assumptions #communism #during #era #evolved

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#books #confident #continued #even #eventually

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century! ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#early #early sixties #fifties #how #last

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#before #began #civilization #effects #especially