A Quote by David Hockney

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

David Hockney

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David Hockney
English - Artist
Born: July 9, 1937

In effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my childhood that look to me now, in memory more like the 1940s or the 1950s than the 1960s. Jack [Womack] says that that made us science fiction writers, because we grew up experiencing a kind of time travel.

William Gibson

People who, like me, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II, grew up with cars.

Martin Winterkorn

I had the good fortune to be raised in the 1940s and the 1950s. As I entered business in the late 1950s and 1960s, America was just coming into its own as a great industrial power. It allowed young entrepreneurs to start their engines, to start their businesses, to borrow a little money and to leverage what they had.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.

Edward Herrmann

Instead of watching cartoons when I was little, I had Russian ballet videos from, like, the 1950s and 1940s.

Sarah Hay

In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.

Dr. John

You have to remember: I grew up in the 1950s, the era of cowboy movies and rock 'n' roll.

Christopher Timothy

Americans who grew up in the 1930s or 1940s still have some fleeting memory of what the country was like before it became the steroidal superpower it is today.

Graydon Carter

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

Huey Lewis

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

Al Sharpton

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

Jonathan Pryce

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

Liam Neeson

My parents' generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser brandished in the 1950s.

Mona Eltahawy

A lot of the major players in the 1960s were the same as the 1940s and 1950s - Hitchen's 'Sleep with Slander.' Armstong's 'Lemon in the Basket,' which is a fusion of the political assassination thriller and a family drama. And Hughes's 'The Expendable Man.'

Sarah Weinman

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time.

Sara Paretsky

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time

Sara Paretsky

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