#sixties

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. ↗

— John Lennon

#did #gave #glimpse #had #just

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#anything #behavior #done #experience #feel

If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties--or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#seventies #sixties #experience

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#compared #dead #grateful #grateful dead #i

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#came #candidate #day #did #die

Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#anything #attitudes #charles #had #him

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services. ↗

— John le Carre

#cold war #during #great #gripped #i

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. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#always #around #barrier #doing #felt

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. ↗

— Curt Flood

#apart #asia #child #coming #constitution

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#me #part #political #real #sixties