College Quote by Sargent Shriver

“THE "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives every one a new opportunity.”

— Napoleon Hill

The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds…

— Ben Bernanke

Depression made my life more worse, it was just like a damn curse..

— Chasity Morgan

The depression happened more so because when I was a little kid, I wanted to be a doctor. My heart was like, I want…

— Melina Perez

I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

My parents were born in 1906 and 1907. I think the experience of the Depression greatly influenced the way they thought about the world.

— Janet Yellen

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

— Walter Annenberg

I had a lot of depression as a kid.

— Sarah Silverman

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

— Bob Cousy

Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is an essential…

— Thomas Woods

In 2013, I went through a really great depression.

— Israel Adesanya

I was pretty depressed when I was a teenager. The thing that spurred that on was that my dad died from cancer when I…

— Charles Forsman