Depression Era Quotes

#1. I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer ... and they made it.

Bob Beauprez

#2. During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.

Laird Barron

#3. When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.

Lance Henriksen

#4. I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.

Ben Folds

#5. Because of the varroa mite, wild honey bees are now, for all practical purposes, extinct in the United States.

Hannah Nordhaus

#6. I know that some poor immigrants from that era had unrealistic expectations and were disappointed, but I don't think my grandparents were disappointed at all, even though they experienced some very hard times during the Great Depression.

Samuel Alito

#7. Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.

Yasmin Mogahed

#8. I don't feel the depression the people who are always looking back to the '50s, to 'Father Knows Best' feel. I can see the coming of another glorious era.

Bharati Mukherjee

#9. Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.

Vladimir Nabokov

#10. Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and is resisted.

Carl Sagan

#11. What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

Ridley Scott

#12. What we have now, shall never be again. The poets of the past sit in amazement of the wanna-be's of an era long gone.

T. Grassan

#13. The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds of war gathering ominously in the background ... For my money, few periods are so replete with human interest.

Ben Bernanke

#14. I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

Wayne Dyer

#15. The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

Sylvia Plath

#16. Jimmy Dickens was the essence of country music and the heart of the Grand Ole Opry.

Connie Smith

#17. I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.

Charles Schwab

#18. But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.

Marilyn Manson

#19. Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady ... should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

Alan Brennert

#20. Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

David Seabury

#21. My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.

Richard M. Daley

#22. Life begins on the other side of despair.

Jean-Paul Sartre