Lois Lowry Quotes

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

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.'

The '50s were a secretive time.

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 and the '70s are sort of similar in that they're both times of major paranoia in America.

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

I am a product of the 1950s.

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.

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.

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

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

President Eisenhower is a communist dupe!

I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.

The Hollywood of Frank Capra's era, when Reagan became a minor star, sold the world an image of American pith and patriotism in many ways as defining as the moon landing or the A-bomb.

The nineteen fifties was a time of tumultuous change.

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

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.

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

I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world.

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.

I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s and '70s. My attitude resembles that of my parents, who were born in the '20s and lived through the Great Depression and World War II.

I was born in 1969, believe it or not, so I was a child in the '70s.

Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology and post-war anti-Communist paranoia in the United States.