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Quotes About 1957

headed instead across the field to the Magna Carta memorial, a little open-air rotunda erected in 1957 by the American Bar Association and memorable today as the only decent thing ever done by lawyers.
~ Bill Bryson
It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
~ Kate Smith
WHEN THE Diamond Smugglers was first published Ian Fleming had a copy bound for his own library. On the flyleaf, as was his custom, he wrote a short paragraph describing its genesis. It started with the alarming words: "This was written in 2 weeks in Tangiers, April 1957." As the ensuing tale of woe made clear, he didn't consider it his finest fortnight. He ended with the dismissive verdict: "It
~ Ian Fleming
I was born in 1957 as the second son of the late Sat Paul and Lalita Mittal. My father was a politician and, at one point of time, an MP. A gap of two years separates me from both my elder brother Rakesh and younger sibling Rajan.
~ Sunil Mittal
In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball's gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.
~ Jane Leavy
I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.
~ Jean Giraud
I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.
~ Bernie Mac
At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.
~ Edgar Mitchell
I lost almost all the blood in my body in 1957
~ Charles Bukowski
The meeting had been called to settle down the potential problems that could have erupted in the wake of the October 1957 shooting of godfather Albert Anastasia in a barber's chair with a hot towel over his face in New York's Park-Sheraton Hotel. The
~ Charles Brandt
after all, in 1957 the Soviet Union put the first ever man in space)
~ Ha-Joon Chang
Richard Hoggart's cultural analysis 'The Uses of Literacy' was published in 1957, but its influence still hovers over anyone setting out to write seriously about people's affection for things that aren't serious, such as the products of pop culture.
~ David Hepworth
American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.
~ Tom Holt
I was a cop in the Las Vegas Police Department in 1957. I was very young when I joined. But then I became a federal narcotics agent after that, in Vegas, and that propelled me into my future to fight the drug traffickers.
~ Joe Arpaio
Writing in 1957, Dr. Spock endorsed the process: "This is the way Nature expects human beings to learn child care—from their own childhood.
~ Jennifer Traig
In October, 1957, Russia electrified the world with her first Sputnik. Built on plans stolen from the United States after World War II, Sputnik I, with a payload weighing 184 pounds, was successfully launched into orbit October 4th.
~ Unknown
If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.
~ Billy Graham
October 5, 1957, local time, an R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile lifted off from the Soviet Union's top-secret launch complex at Baikonur, in Kazakhstan, and arced eastward into the predawn darkness over central Asia.
~ Unknown
The decision for the I-40 route had been made quietly in 1957 at a nonpublic meeting of white business leaders and state highway officials.
~ Unknown
By 1957 97% of all marriageable men and women were married, and if they cared to have a social life, they stayed that way.
~ Peter Jennings