Living In The 50s Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it. — Nora Ephron

Presented with a challenge to its power, an illegitimate regime will often overreact, driven by the knowledge that all they have is force. — Chris Hayes

The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s. — Vy Higginsen

It was the night before Christmas. — John Green

Every time we make jokes about how jologs someone's school is, we are not insulting the poor student's intellectual abilities but their parents' financial capacity. — Lourd Ernest H. De Veyra

Replace "This project is so big and important" with "I can take one small step. — Neil A. Fiore

The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines. — Jamie Lee Curtis

It isn't that I dislike you so much, big, fat dragon. It's that I don't like you enough. — G.A. Aiken

I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love. — Yasunari Kawabata

Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's in widow's weeds. She's in her 50s, but appears very old. And she's exhausted from raising rather out-of-control children. Her favorite daughter, Anna, has died (Eleanor's mother), and she has living at home two other sons, Vallie and Eddie. And they are incredible sportsmen, incredible drinkers, out-of-control alcoholics. — Blanche Wiesen Cook

Not only was Dan Cooper likely an alias, but many people suspected at the time were people living under assumed names. The '50s and '60s were a time when some people were desperate to leave their lives. They felt trapped in their marriages or their jobs, and they were seeking freedom. And one of the ways to do that, because technology wasn't advanced as it is today, was just to take over somebody's name. — Geoffrey Gray

Books, Perry, books! The backbone of civilization. And our homework." I — Karina Halle

One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn't wavered since the '50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music. — Eric Burdon

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world. — Ben Gibbard

When they hunt, every dog knows the position of every other dog. I wanted them to understand the duality of team and player. The strength of the player is the team and the strength of the team is the player. — Terry Pratchett

I think, of course, all politicians have a sense of their own image, but he had it in an unusual extent. And, when I first knew him in the '50s, when I was living in Johannesburg, I thought it was too much. I thought he had too theatrical a sense, like he was too much of a showman, and I wasn't quite sure what lay behind it. I was quite wrong, of course, because as soon as he went - before he went to jail, when he made two great speeches, it was already clear that there was a great deal behind that showmanship. — Anthony Sampson