#fifties

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

— Pete Seeger

#back #country #did #fact #fifties

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#ago #america #ancestors #came #dissenters

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. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#doing #fifties #going #here #i

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

— Rosemary Clooney

#fabricated #felt #fifties #i #living

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#doctor #draft #during #early #fifties

I fought for peace in the fifties. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#fought #i #peace

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

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

— Hannah Arendt

#fifties #know #these #you

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. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#career #desire #fifties #i #lucky

My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#atmosphere #back #because #been #cool