Post-War Optimism Quotes

The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.

I loved New York in the '50s.

In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.

When my parents met, my mother was a waitress and my father was a dockyard worker. They were part of that post-war better-yourself generation, so they both went to night school.

The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.

Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

Americans love America, but there was a time after World War II when Americans were in love with America. We were in love with the promises of America.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.