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1950s Quotes

Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls.

Walls Back Early Inside Spy 1950s

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.

Down Two 1950s Closed Which Least

I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s.

Gerard Depardieu

Good Care You Know Hollywood 1950s

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

Black Holiday Go Up 1950s Act

In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in this newly opened field were faced with the problem of what to do with their newly acquired wealth.

George Emil Palade

Problem Wealth Early Possible 1950s

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

Friendship Business 1950s Association

To go back to a 1950s voice mentality with Title II and net neutrality would be a tremendous mistake for our country.

John T. Chambers

Mistake Voice Back Country Go 1950s

The story of my holiday decorating is if Ralph Lauren was trapped in a 1950s Woolworth, this is what it would look like.

Mary Kay Andrews

Story Look Holiday Trapped 1950s

There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.

Jordan Peterson

Great Men Genius Great Men 1950s

Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?

Thought 1950s Would Who Espionage

I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.

Richard Griffiths

Stop Kid 1950s Normal Adulthood

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

Price Survivor 1950s Integration

In the 1950s, the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva was lucky enough to receive each summer for several months the visit of Jean Weigle. He was the former professor of experimental physics at the University of Geneva.

Enough Physics Summer Lucky 1950s

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.

Caroline Leavitt

Night Create 1950s Meals Every Were

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

Feet Weird Play Go 1950s Buy

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

Late Canada Nuclear Weapons 1950s

A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater.

Mary Pope Osborne

Childhood War Saturday Games 1950s

Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land, confiscatory taxation, and so on. My anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of India in the 21st century.

Father Time India Africa Land 1950s

In the late 1950s, the woman's place in society was second-class.

Annaleigh Ashford

Woman Society Late Place 1950s

I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so I like kitten heels occasionally because I can move around a bit easier, but pointy-toed pumps are very elongating.

Marina and the Diamonds

Look I Can Heels 1950s Kitten Move

The 1950s is my favourite era.

1950s Era Favourite

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

Watching 1950s Little Videos 1940s

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

Edward Herrmann

You Detroit Automobile Air 1950s

In the 1950s, when we went to Lord's, you had to sit down, and it was very prim and proper. It was only in the 1960s when we started to do well that West Indians started voicing their opinions.

Garfield Sobers

Opinions You Down 1950s Sit Started

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