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Quotes About 1962

There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.
~ Priscilla Presley
I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
~ Sam Waterston
In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers of allowing another nation to beat us there.
~ Mario Cuomo
I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.
~ Hamish Bowles
The chief reason for this shameful defeat was our excessive passion for the ideology of non-violence… I feel the war of 1962 has done good to us because it opened our eyes and [punctured] our fanciful idealism… We soon realized the importance of the army and weapons.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.
~ Joseph Rotblat
The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
~ Pankaj Mishra
Beginning in 1962... the courts began to systematically secularize the nation, reflecting its view that God and the Scripture had no place in the public arena.
~ Rick Scarborough
We walked past a mailbox shaped like a cow and saw a hand-painted sign on the front door that read THE MORRISON'S—ESTABLISHED 1962. John and I had a long debate at the door about whether or not that apostrophe belonged there.
~ David Wong
Only in 1962, when President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order prohibiting the use of federal funds to support racial discrimination in housing, did the FHA cease financing subdivision developments whose builders openly refused to sell to black buyers.
~ Richard Rothstein
I have been on a diet since 1962.
~ Mary Quant
We sailed from Vancouver on the Oriana on March 19, 1962, and on April 13 arrived at Sentani, an airfield on the north coast
~ Don Richardson
At least I'm not a font nerd." "A what?" Matt smiled. "You know. People who love fonts. There are people who go to a movie and get agitated because, while the movie is supposed to be set in 1962, the restaurant awning shown in the background of some scene is printed in Arras Bold, which wasn't invented until 1991, so clearly the producers of the movie are insane and should be beheaded.
~ Jessica Park
The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.
~ Noam Chomsky
China invaded India, and there was a war between India and China in some of the disputed terrain in 1962, and India got hurt by that.
~ Wesley Clark
What I was most curious about was why Armstrong, a top U.S. Navy test pilot, flying the most advanced aircraft in the world, would want to join the astronaut corps in 1962, which included chimpanzees and monkeys.
~ Douglas Brinkley
In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'
~ Manfred Mann
In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.
~ Noam Chomsky
until 1962, the year which turned out to be the big one for discounting. In that year, four companies that I know of started discount chains. S. S. Kresge, a big, 800-store variety chain, opened a discount store in Garden City, Michigan, and called it Kmart. F. W. Woolworth, the granddaddy of them all, started its Woolco chain. Dayton-Hudson out of Minneapolis opened its first Target store. And some independent down in Rogers, Arkansas, opened something called a Wal-Mart.
~ Sam Walton
I graduated from high school in 1962.
~ Sandra Faber
In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.
~ Pele
John Glenn's anniversaries have followed me all of my life. I was born in 1962, the year he orbited Earth.
~ Gregory H. Johnson
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
~ Barry White
American scientists blew up a hydrogen bomb that was a hundred times as powerful as the one used in Hiroshima right outside the atmosphere in the summer of 1962, just to find out what would happen.
~ Scott Matthews