Tom Brokaw Quotes

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous.

I disliked everything about the '60s.

The '60s were an amazing time.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.

I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.

They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. Well I remember the '60s, I was there and I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

I was very, very lucky to spend my youth during the '60s.

You can't recreate the '60s.

The late 1960s was another time and another world.

I've always been fascinated with the '60s in general.

Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind then. Then afterwards, the songs and the bad drugs, that took its toll.

I would love to have been born in the '60s.

The '60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.

I grew up in the 1970s, and my friends and I felt very keenly that we had missed the '60s. We were bummed out about it.

To talk about the '60s almost brings tears to my eyes. What we did. What we all did. We changed the world.

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

I've always felt like if I was going to be born any other time that it would be during the '60s or definitely during Woodstock.