Annette Funicello Quotes

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

I am a product of the 1950s.

I never thought I wanted to write about the '50s, because I thought it was the most boring and bland decade to grow up in, and I never wanted to go back there.

In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'

Some people would like the world to go back to the 1950s.

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

The '50s were a secretive time.

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world.

People who, like me, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II, grew up with cars.

The nineteen fifties was a time of tumultuous change.

We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.

It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s.

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

An era that I specifically like is sort of late '50s, early '60s. I guess mid '50s, too. I like these types of films that deal with post-WWII America and this more complex leading man that kind of emerges from that.

Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.

The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very exciting time - a pioneering, rule-breaking time, especially for the young.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.

When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

America before the 1960s was a pretty innocent place. We were the Lone Ranger galloping off to the rescue of the needy and the oppressed of the world, and we could get things done.