Bill Bryson Quotes

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

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

I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic Baby Boomer.

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.

I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer.

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity.

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.'

We stand today at the edge of a new frontier—the frontier of the 1960's.

When you think of the later '50s and 'Far From Heaven' and Eisenhower and Sirk, you think of that Hollywood panache and gloss to American middle-class life.

The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.

The '60s is such an explosive period. It was very interesting for me because I grew up in Canada, and obviously, I know some American history because I've lived here for many years, and even in Canada, that does permeate.

You have to remember: I grew up in the 1950s, the era of cowboy movies and rock 'n' roll.

The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was breaking up and moving fast into modernity.

I grew up in the '70s and '80s, at a time that I'd argue was the absolute golden age of American popular culture. Because not only did we have all of the fantastic new stuff in print and on screens, but we had a constant supply of everything that came before, as well.

Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.

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

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

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.

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

In the mid-1980s, there was a grassroots desire for American culture. Maybe it was not a definite harbinger to what was to come in terms of the fall of the Soviet Union, but it certainly gave a heads up to the global merging of the retail culture.

In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.

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