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Quotes About 1963

In maybe 1963, we had 'Collier's Encyclopedia,' and they sent us their yearly LP. I heard the Beatles talking on there. That was the first time I tried altering my voice, doing a Liverpudlian accent.
~ Dana Carvey
I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in 1966, but in 1963 and 1964, I was absorbing enormous amounts of music, from baroque to jazz to blues to Indian music.
~ Donovan
In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.
~ Kenneth Joseph Arrow
People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.
~ Julian Fellowes
1963, because of the sense of moral authority that the civil rights movement had, we were able to get people to respond, because of the quality of our demand and our sense of moral authority.
~ John Lewis
Civil rights demonstration in Washington, DC, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy speaking to crowd, June 14, 1963 (Warren
~ Kerry Kennedy
She herself was a rape victim, attacked at a party when she was fifteen. It was 1963. Nobody talked about sex. Nobody talked about rape.
~ T. Christian Miller
Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing 'She Loves You' in August 1963.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
I left the South in 1963 and was living in Morristown, New Jersey, when the March on Washington took place, so I watched it on television instead.
~ Claudette Colvin
George, though, brings back some daunting intelligence after a September 1963 visit to Benton, Illinois, where his sister, Louise, lives. "They don't know us," he reports. "It's going
~ James Patterson
Thanks in part to the commission, Kennedy issued an executive order ending sex discrimination in the federal civil service. In 1963 he signed an Equal Pay Act that guaranteed women equal pay for equal work.
~ James T. Patterson
Kennedy, who had a mentally ill sister, also moved more actively than presidential predecessors to advance the cause of mental health. In 1963 Congress passed a Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Act, which funded local mental health centers that were to provide a range of out-patient services, including marital counseling, help for delinquents, and programs for unwed mothers and alcoholics.
~ James T. Patterson
In the fall of 1963, in Leningrad, in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the young poet Dmitry Bobyshev stole the young poet Joseph Brodsky's girlfriend.
~ Keith Gessen
It was Max Perutz who inspired me to go into structural biology when he gave a lecture at Harvard in 1963. As soon as I heard him talk, I decided that this is what I want to do.
~ Thomas A. Steitz
'Music Hop' in 1963 was my first hosting job of a variety program.
~ Alex Trebek
The United States lost the nuclear-powered submarine Thresher 100 miles east of Cape Cod in 1963, and the submarine Scorpion sank in 1968 in more than 10,000 feet of water 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
~ Andrew Rosenthal
Cockfighting was illegal in Oklahoma until 1963, when a judge ruled that chickens are not animals and therefore unprotected by anticruelty laws.
~ Unknown
This is my 1963 Ford. It was the only car I could A-Ford.
~ Chuck Berry
The first was How I Turned $1,000 into a Million in Real Estate—in My Spare Time by William Nickerson, a paperback book I bought in a Sydney, Australia, hotel gift shop in 1963.
~ Donald J. Trump
Vietnam del Sur se hundiría de un día para otro», advirtió John F. Kennedy a su auditorio en Texas, la mañana del 22 de noviembre de 1963. Y con Vietnam del Sur se desplomarían también las alianzas que Estados Unidos mantenía
~ John Lewis Gaddis
in 1963 because he liked the sound of the sentence "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. As for "Muster Mark, "three quarks are needed to form a proton or a neutron. The electric charges of quarks are fractional (+/-1/3 or +?2/3) because their sum must equal the charge of a proton (+1) or a neutron (0).
~ Matthieu Ricard
Consequently, when I became Minister of National Defence for Canada in 1963, one of my first actions was to visit our troops in Europe in order to assess their battle readiness.
~ Unknown