(83 quotes found)
“Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance”
Will Durant
“Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up”
John Lennon
“I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.”
Imelda Marcos
“As I see it, there is not much difference between being sixty-three and fifty-three: whereas when I was fifty-three I felt at a staggering distance from forty-three”
Simone de Beauvoir
“YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down the historical throat without touching the sides”
Julian Barnes
“Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock'n'roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.”
Neil Young
“For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.”
Jerry Garcia
“When I look back upon the more than sixty years that I have spent on this entrancing earth, and when I am asked which of all the changes that I have witnessed appears to me to be the most significant, I am inclined to answer that it is the loss of a”
Harold Nicolson
“Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.”
Camille Paglia
