Yard after yard passed by, the berths empty, the grass…

Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently... watching the…

— Alfred Stieglitz

“I grew up in the 1930s Great Depression when many families struggled to make ends meet, and in an area where old-fashioned country gospel…

— Jerry Bridges

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became…

— Ben Bernanke

Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the…

— Mark Zandi

“[W.D.] Jones later commented that people frequently helped them, 'Not because it was Bonnie and Clyde. People in them days just helped—no questions asked.”

— John Neal Phillips

The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s - use a…

— Thomas Sowell

This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this…

— Anonymous

I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.

— Wynton Marsalis

The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

— Julian Barnes

Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s…

— Kenneth S. Deffeyes

My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn,…

— Bill O'Reilly

The trade deficit always goes up when the economy is strong and plummets when the economy sinks, as it did during both the Great…

— Stephen Moore

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…

— Helen Fisher

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

— Colin Firth

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman