Great Depression Quotes
Collection of top 70 famous quotes about Great Depression
Great Depression Quotes & Sayings
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Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.
— Chuck Palahniuk
What the market is doing is going through a correction, which it really needed. It's getting down to where it's reasonable.
— Ted Martinez
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.
— Tom Brokaw
Can you admit on here that you have an affliction for millions of other people to see? Then that is great and a huge step towards your recovery.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.
— Ben Bernanke
September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression,
— Ben Bernanke
I don't worry about new home sales
— James K. Glassman
Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.
— Charles Spurgeon
I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.
— Jerry Stiller
Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Housing activity will remain healthy for some time to come.
— David Lereah
With great profundity I note the pleasure one gets or takes in pushing wheeled objects, as opposed to the depression involved in pulling them.
— Michael Cisco
Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.
— Charles M. Schwab
The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.
— Clive Barker
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?
— Kurt Vonnegut
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
— Jon Meacham
We will not have any more crashes in our time.
— John Maynard Keynes
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When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.
— James K. Glassman
I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.
— Robert J. Shiller
Only if we understand our past, can we move forward to a brighter future.
— Barbara Post-Askin
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
Nobody can go back to how it was. The dust bowl dried us all up bitter as seeds and spat us out all over the land and none of us yet has taken root.
— Katherine Longshore
Victimhood and a 'can't do' spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.
— Cal Thomas
The worst is over without a doubt.
— Alfred P. Sloan
Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.
— Carrie Fisher
Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did.
— Kasey Chambers
To fit the individual to live and to function in the institutional life of his day.
— Max Braithwaite
My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.
— Dorothy Hamill
I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.
— John Updike
![Great Depression Quotes By William E. Leuchtenburg: In Chicago [during the Great Depression], a crowd](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/great-depression-quotes-by-william-e-leuchtenburg-1867342.jpg "Great Depression Quotes By William E. Leuchtenburg: In Chicago [during the Great Depression], a crowd")
In Chicago [during the Great Depression], a crowd of some fifty hungry men fought over barrel of garbage set outside the back door of restaurant
— William E. Leuchtenburg
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that's not true at all.
— David Stockman
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
— Karen Elson
Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.
— John Cornwell
Great music is a great remedy for depression, but you have to drink it in with your heart and mind.
— Debasish Mridha
Can't you do just a little bit more?pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries) — J.G. Morrison
I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.
— Harry S. Dent
I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?
— Melinda Gates
A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet.
— Dennis L. McKiernan
To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?
— Richard D. Wolff
It's great to be young and insane.
— Michael Keaton
We have hit bottom and are on the upswing.
— James J. Davis
Dodd-Frank is the most restrictive financial regulation since the Great Depression - but it won't stop another bubble.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
The country is not in good condition.
— Calvin Coolidge
The Government's business is in sound condition.
— Andrew Mellon
During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.
— Maureen Corrigan
When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.
— Clint Eastwood
Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
— Barry Eichengreen
Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.
— James Surowiecki
American labor may now look to the future with confidence.
— James J. Davis
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
— Chuck Palahniuk
