1962 Quotes

“I burned sixty calories. That should take care of a peanut I had in 1962.”

“John Glenn's anniversaries have followed me all of my life. I was born in 1962, the year he orbited Earth.”

“Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.”

“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.”

“Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100,000 in 1962 180 per 100,000 by 1964.”

“Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?”

“They had to call and callAnd pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.--From the poem "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29 October 1962”

“What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.”

“In 1962, Popjak and I left the service of the Medical Research Council and became co-directors of the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology set up by Shell Research Ltd.”