Thirty Years Quotes - Page 13

• The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Men, Years, Differences

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• In the last thirty years we have gained enormous amount of freedom (everywhere, except perhaps in places like Burma or North Korea), but we lost quite a large amount of security. Because of all sorts of reasons, because of globalization which stripped the nation state of a large part of its sovereignty away, because of the dismantling of the so-called welfare state. As a result, people feel simultaneously much freer and much more insecure.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Insecure, Korea, Years

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• I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.

  Jimmy Carter

  Years, Thirty, Introspective

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I never stopped writing. I started writing when I was twelve years of age. And I was writing all the time. But nothing was translated until thirty years after I started writing, when The Hidden Face of Eve was translated in 1980.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Writing, Years, Age

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• We have to concentrate back on: Where is the money going? Where's it been going for the last thirty years? How do we start to redistribute the cake more evenly, and give people opportunities? That's as much about poor white people in West Virginia as it is about poor black people on the Southside of Chicago.

  Irvine Welsh

  Opportunity, Virginia, Years

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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