The Fifties Quotes

“The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories.”
― David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself

“Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going.”
― Sara Marie Hogg, Catho Darlington: Lessons Learned in the Space Age

“this is a nervous little decade we’re playing with”
― Richard Fariña, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

“Everybody was pissed off in those days, but there were no socially acceptable outlets for hostility. "Hostile" was a word you heard constantly -- but it was a scolding word, like 'bad,' 'naughty,' or 'no-no.' All over this heavily psychoanalyzed country, people were saying to other people, 'Why are you being so hostile? . . . That's a hostile remark! . . . There's a lot of hostility behind something like that!' It was an incredible age, the fifties! An age of stifled violence obsessing about THE BOMB!”
― Albert Goldman, Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce!!