The Fifties Quotes

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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.

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their fifties.

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

That spring was the start of everything, for me. Before then, I might have been half-asleep, drifting through life.

I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.

I wasn't like a Fifties dad.