1930s Quotes

87 1930s quotes by 85 unique authors

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad. — Gene Tierney
There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three… — Tom Wolfe
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the… — Helen Fisher
Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret — Brian Selznick
[On School Uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's… — George Carlin
And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and bone, became gradually human. For… — Philip Sington
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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