Top 389 Sixties Quotes & Sayings

I kind of feel stuck in the late-Sixties and early-Seventies.

In the Sixties, conglomerates were all the rage.

I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around.

I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself.

In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it.

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.

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be.

My mother helped to integrate the local elementary school in the nineteen-sixties.

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.

I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents led, even in these tough times. A lot of them are more active, a lot of them are still working, which was not the case when our grandparents were in their sixties.

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there.

I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

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

We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.

Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.

We got £25 a week in the early Sixties when we were first with Brian Epstein, when we played the clubs.

Now, a lot of people are challenged by the fact that a record number of people in their sixties have living parents, and a record number of people in their sixties have kids who may still depend upon them.

In the sixties, in the middle sixties, suddenly comics became this hip thing, and college students and hippies were reading them. So I was one of them, and I started reading, basically it was the Marvel Renaissance at that point. It was all their new characters, Spiderman and the X-Men and the Fantastic Four.

A lot of times people get to a certain age and they quit. I always felt sorry for the Frank Capras, the Billy Wilders, directors like that, because they quit in their sixties. Why would you quit? Think of the great work they could've done in their sixties, seventies, and on up.

I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.

Nobody thought that the music boom of the Sixties was going to last.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important ideals were brought to the forefront of the collective consciousness at that time. Granted, drug use was so pervasive that our generation did not as a group have the capacity to manifest our ideals to any great extent. But many of the people who were young in the sixties and who were most touched by that collective ethos are still touched.

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

I'm not just a Sixties act.

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

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It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

I love the idea of the Swinging Sixties in London.

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

Sixties models knew nothing about skin care.

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

The late-sixties Teles are the best value you can get for a vintage guitar.

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?

There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.

I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.

The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light has dimmed and gone underground, something in me would like to think the sixties phenomenon was a dress rehearsal for a grander, wider leap in consciousness yet to come.

As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties.

I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of the 1960s - hedonism, self-indulgence and consumerism. For half of all Americans today, the Woodstock culture of the Sixties is the culture they grew up with - their traditional culture. For them, Judeo-Christian culture is outside the mainstream now. The counter-culture has become the dominant culture, and the former culture a dissident culture - something that is far out, and 'extreme'.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

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

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides to reward you with certain kinds of profound appreciation, so that people name their children and schools and libraries after you! And you still have your sexuality and your sensuality. If you want your sexuality, you still have it.

In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

I dont want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.