1930s Quote by Bill O'Reilly

My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from all of…

— Joe R. Lansdale

My parents, like others of "The Greatest Generation" who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, wanted to provide the best possible…

— Dan Millman

When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her…

— Patrisse Cullors

Whatever happened to the good old days when kids was scared to death of their parents?

— Archie Bunker

'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they…

— Billy Joel

I grew up on the brink of poverty in Baltimore and the Bronx during the '80s and '90s. I remember those streets you couldn't…

— Wes Moore

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and…

— Ben Stein

The streets was basically my parents.

— Bernard Hopkins

When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their…

— Lance Henriksen

A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn,…

— Mary Blakely

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

— Larry Elder

I grew up in New York City during the Depression. My earliest recollections were of my parents talking about what they would do if…

— Stan Lee