Top 249 Fifties Quotes & Sayings

One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties.

Even with Yorkshire I had 19 fifties before I got my first hundred.

I feel sometimes and in some ways like Linda Romanoli and Monica Velour; I feel marginalized because I'm in my fifties. If you went online and you look at some of the blogs, which one can do on a lonely night, it's pretty startling what people will say about you just because you're in your fifties.

Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties.

I'd love to be a NASCAR driver because they're, like, in their forties and fifties.

You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world.

I'm in my fifties now. That's still a shock when I say it out loud, because I don't feel any different to when I was in my thirties.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.

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!

Early on in my career, I used to get out in the 30s, 40s, fifties, and 60s. So I really appreciated reaching my first hundred.

Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices.

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.

It would have been so awesome to be born in the Thirties and be in your prime in the Fifties. Except for the whole being black thing, obviously!

In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion.

My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.

During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.

The nineteen fifties was a time of tumultuous change.

I'm really a very fifties housewife.

I don't care about hundreds, fifties, averages.

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

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

Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties.

It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties.

In the late Fifties and early Sixties, I used to think that most of these fashion creators weren't that great, and if the photograph was good, it was mostly thanks to the photographer.

There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.

I've enjoyed all my times, teens, twenties, thirties, forties, and now I'm enjoying my fifties.

Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.

When I was growing up in the eighties, there was a real nostalgic streak for the fifties. Look at 'Back to the Future.'

In the fifties… we were so busy being cool that we didn’t know how to say the word love

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties and remember how unpleasant all kinds of food could be then.

Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Lana Turner taught me how to kiss on the set of the movie 'Diane' in the early Fifties.

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn't define it in the early Fifties when I was starting out.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

I wasn't like a Fifties dad.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

I think I'll be flavor of the month when I'm in my fifties.

I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.

Vegas; one of the few places still encouraging men in their fifties to dress like their in a boy-band from the 80's.

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.

That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

On the other hand, the seventies were drab. That is, I am utterly fascinated by the fifties and sixties.

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.

Back in the fifties (the nineteen fifties, not the eighteen fifties) I did some writing for Mad Magazine, along with my friend Ernie Kovaks and a pair of comics named Bob and Ray.

I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

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.

When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!

The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.