1968 Quotes
Collection of top 58 famous quotes about 1968
1968 Quotes & Sayings
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It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.
— Casey Kasem
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.
— Jeffrey Toobin
It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another ... for in it are good and evil mixed.
— Lloyd Alexander
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
— Billie Jean King
So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.
— Russell Banks
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
— August Wilson
Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then.
— Edward Hirsch
In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.
— Peggy Fleming
The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed, not to control guns, but to control blacks.
— Robert Sherrill
This 20th win means more to me than the perfect game in 1968.
— Catfish Hunter
It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.
— Lloyd Alexander
I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
— J. Anthony Lukas
My country did not send me 5,000 miles to start the race; they sent me 5,000 miles to finish the race. - John Stephen Akhwari, 1968 Summer Olympic
— John Stephen Akhwari
All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious.
— Richard Greenberg
As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.
— Matthew Weiner
Median real income is below its level of twenty-five years ago. For males, median real income is below what it was in 1968.
— Noam Chomsky
... the very concept of happiness is conditional, a fiction.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Moscow was an enormous city, but there was nowhere to go in it.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In the fall of 1968, I reported to Moody Air Force Base in Georgia for pilot training.
— George W. Bush
From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.
— Samuel R. Delany
The world is very different today than it was in 1968.
— Mark Wahlberg
Finally, he gave up trying to quiet her and lit a cigarette, the last resort of a man who finds himself in an intolerably stupid position.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One thing's for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl (1968), I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
— Barbra Streisand
In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do..
— Cesar Chavez
From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died.
— Jackie Stewart
I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.
— Tom Stoppard
When I started 'First Blood,' back in 1968, I was deeply influenced by Geoffrey Household's 'Rogue Male.'
— David Morrell
The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.
— Robert Plant
I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.
— Carre Otis
EVERY PILOT REMEMBERS his first flight. For me, it was in a Cessna 172 at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia, in 1968.
— George W. Bush
One of the things to be learnt about spying is that the least likely is the most probable.--Sir Dick White, Head of MI6, 1956-1968 — John Knoerle
It was clearly a prisoner's craftwork; that is, the most painstaking work in the world, for prisoners have nowhere to hurry to.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
— Tariq Ali
Fire engine red paint job, big block V8 rumbling, the 1968 Ford Mustang elicited envious stares from nearly everyone it passed.
— Andrew Clawson
I was born in 1968 and grew up in my grandmother's house in suburban Connecticut, where I was convinced a ghost named Virgil lived in the attic.
— Jennifer McMahon
Rick Kogan comments regarding book, "1968-A Story As Relevant Today As It Was Then" on website After Hours with Rick Kogan.
— William Natale
No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
— Peter Tork
Urging others to read F. Scott Fitzgerald, if not a reactionary act, was not something one could do in 1968.
— Haruki Murakami
My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing.
— William T. Vollmann
You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down.
— Emilio Estevez
Hungry for breathlike a kite falling stray,
the wire grows slack
the child within pulls at the empty air. — Jack Campbell
That's why there's a devil - to judge the priests.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1966 and 1968 were a world removed from each other in the political and cultural life of the United States ...
— Joan Didion
Engelbart showed, back in 1968, nearly everything that a networked personal computer does today.
— Walter Isaacson
Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
— Gail Sheehy
... skepticism is a way of freeing the dogmatic mind, and that's where its value lies.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
