Quotes of Fifties - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Elizabeth Hardwick

“ When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile. ”

- George Burns

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

- Hannah Arendt

“ The children of Adin, six hundred fifty and five. ”

- Bible

“ Give me a man who says, "This one thing I do," and not, "These fifty things, I dabble in.". ”

- Dwight L. Moody
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