Children Quote by Robert Stack

The thing that got me about the Orphan Trains was that the experiences were so varied. Some of the kids went from neglect and…

— Laura Moriarty

My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck…

— Michelle Pfeiffer

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got…

— Clint Eastwood

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

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

My mother lived through the Great Depression. Her family of 11 children pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and moved to wherever there was…

— Chuck Norris

Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons…

— Warren Farrell

In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived.…

— Jimmy Carter

“Other resources I relied on during my orphan train research were the Children’s Aid Society; the New York Foundling (I attended their 140th homecoming…

— Christina Baker Kline

Can anyone seriously imagine a society without stable families? Maybe we should raise all the kids in state orphanages.

— Rodney Stark

There was one family drama on television when we took out 'The Fosters' - 'Parenthood'. Everybody thought it sounded like a great show, but…

— Peter Paige

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

— Mr. T