Sixty Quotes - Page 18

• The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.

  Coretta Scott King

  Thinking, Challenges, Tactics

  "The Quotable Woman". Book by Elaine Partnow, p. 390, 1978.

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• All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Writing, Learning

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can double my density from three-sixty degrees to seven-twenty instantly.

  Canibus

  Twenties, Degrees, Three

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• All that Swinging Sixties. It didn’t do anyone any good, did it? Easy sex and the Pill. Marriages were ruined. I never did approve. I never really enjoyed the sex.

  Christine Keeler

  Sex, Pills, Easy

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• The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

  Nancy Reagan

  Children, Crazy, Trying

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• It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I say I can't remember. I'm just appalled by the memoirs published by people who regurgitate dialogue, conversations from when they were small children, and they go on for three or four pages. I can't even remember what we said to each other ten minutes ago! How can I remember what was said sixty years ago? It's not possible.

  Paul Auster

  Children, Years, People

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• It’s impossible to monitor every thought we have. Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day. Can you imagine how exhausted you’d feel trying to control all sixty thousand of those thoughts? Fortunately there’s an easier way and it’s our feelings. Our feelings let us know what we’re thinking.

  Marci Shimoff

  Thinking, Feelings, Trying

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• Well, the world has changed so radically, and we're all running to catch up. I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but look: Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by sixty-five million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?

  Alan Grant

  Running, Men, Years

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• As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.

  Grace Paley

  Stories, Saws, Obligation

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• People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My grandmother looked at my father with the same eyes when he was sixty and she was eighty-five.

  Grace Paley

  Father, Kids, Eye

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• I loved the comradeship of the sixties and the seventies, and I still maintain friendships with the people I worked with then - the ones that are still alive. That's one of the great gifts of our political movements, great friendships . . . and also a few enmities.

  Grace Paley

  People, Political, Movement

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

  Bill Ayers

  Thinking, Mythology, Persons

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day.

  Marci Shimoff

  Thousand, Researchers

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• Sixty one percent of Donald Trump`s supporters believe that President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States.They believe Donald Trump`s lie about where President Obama was born, the lie he started telling four years ago and has since replaced with other hate-driven lies like the thousands of Muslims Donald Trump lies about having seen celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Hate, Lying, Believe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.

  Britt Ekland

  Ideas, Dieting, Eating

  "My body & soul". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2008.

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• At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

  Camille Pissarro

  Ideas, Unity, Fifty

  "Painting Outside the lines, Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art". Book by David W. Galenson, p. 84, June 30, 2009.

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• Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Strong, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

  John Lanchester

  People, Fifty, Thirty

  John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.81, Faber & Faber

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• I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Men, House

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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• When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

  Barney Frank

  Law, Effort, Community

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• Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Lying, Long, Soul

  Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.52

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• You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

  Upton Sinclair

  America, Years, Trying

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• Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.

  Guru Nanak

  Eight, Shrines, Sacred

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• In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Iraq, Soldier

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• Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all.

  David Horowitz

  Passion, Perfect, Roller Coaster

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