My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.
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Related My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially m... BILL O'REILLY From the year of his birth in 1914 until the outbreak of war in 1941, my father lived in a mostly wh... TIM O'BRIEN Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr... THE CHILDREN I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b... THE CHILDREN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them... JOHN RUSKIN My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about scienc... ADA YONATH There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did... CHERYL LADD It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical enginee... DAVID LEE People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your childre... LI NA My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote... GAIL CARSON LEVINE My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ... FRED ARMISEN It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON My mother was incredibly strict, especially when we moved to New York. Compared with most of the Ame... MARK RONSON In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted a... EZEKIEL EMANUEL We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough m... ROBERT STACK My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children. CAITLIN MORAN You know, I still live in my neighborhood. I live in Brooklyn and the same neighborhood, so I don... VANESSA FERLITO Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God; still greater was the love in that it was ... AKIVA BEN JOSEPH We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and t... IRWIN ROSE Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York. PATRICK EWING I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING We shot the video for 'Broken' where both my parents grew up. There was always a strong sens... PATTY SMYTH I'm supposed to say, Bill O'Reilly, that's immoral - click - and then walk back in and b... ANDREA MACKRIS I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... RUDY GIULIANI My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nie... LOUIS GOSSETT, JR. My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them,... AL FELDSTEIN My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity. DAVID BOWIE The questions I get invariably focus on Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity. It's no... BOB BECKEL In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration ... JACK ZIPES Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from in... LARRY ELDER Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON My life! That's a long story, too. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, like half of the world, I t... ERIK LARSON I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never ma... HOWARD SCHULTZ My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up o... NORMAN LLOYD My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing i... KEKE PALMER Guys like Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Rome, Bill Maher, those are the guys I love and respe... EDDIE TRUNK I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly. MARY TYLER MOORE Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was o... LARRY ELDER An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER I want my children to be proud of their father and to say, 'My father is the best dad in the wor... RICKY MARTIN Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more lo... JOHN RUSKIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their chi... GINNIFER GOODWIN When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of t... SISSY SPACEK My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuc... AUDREY MEADOWS 'Living Single' was on in early 1990s - the show about Queen Latifah living with a bunch of ... REBECCA TRAISTER My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptiv... MICHAEL FRANTI For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and ... WILLOW BAY I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My re... WILBUR SMITH Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children arou... T'KEYAH CRYSTAL KEYMAH I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for e... BILL GRIFFITH You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind o... BRIT HUME My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father durin... GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children. USHER When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London. BETTE MIDLER My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the o... MADELEINE ALBRIGHT In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand... HARPO MARX My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter o... EMMELINE PANKHURST Mark Rylance is one of my heroes. I saw 'Jerusalem' four or five times, twice in New York, t... CHARLIE COX Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are slee... JAMAICA KINCAID There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny... MICHAEL GURIAN Father, my heart, my heart; my dead heart, quicken it; my hard heart, soften it in Christ’s blood.... THOMAS WATSON In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... Adults are only children with a few more years on top. CJ HECK Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastic... BILL O'REILLY I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in... ENID BLYTON When I was up in New York, the first record my parents bought me was the Terror Squad record with ... POST MALONE The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Becaus... DORIS LESSING I'm 19 now, and I go to The New School in New York, where I study Criminal Psychology. My first ... GIGI HADID If you've got a big star like O'Reilly, it does overshadow what the hard-news guys do during... 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MARY BARRA My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly... PATTI SMITH To the children of yesterday, who have grown up and become parents, and to the children of today, wh... FRANCESCO TOTTI I've enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer's program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bi... BIANCA JAGGER Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a... MARK ZANDI DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indul... HARRIET ANN JACOBS Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement abou... ERIC CANTOR About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... 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STEWART O'NAN The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in ... STEWART O'NAN That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers w... FLANNERY O'CONNOR She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hat... TAWNI O'DELL Romance and romantic are different. Death, itself, can be romantic. Nature and a destructive snowsto... R.B. O'BRIEN The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated cauti... MARK O'CONNELL To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the i... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had n... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a si... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be... R.B. O'BRIEN That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," a... FLANNERY O'CONNOR When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You co... TIM O'BRIEN The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not... JOSEPH O'NEILL When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered. JOHN O'DONOHUE Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity. TIM O'BRIEN Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When ... MEGHAN O'ROURKE There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a ... STEWART O'NAN We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate those ... TIM O'BRIEN It's sad when you learn you're not much of a hero. TIM O'BRIEN Experience has taught me that what you love, you should love all the harder because someday it will ... RONAN O'BRIEN A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks mo... P.J. O'ROURKE Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and ... PAT O'SHEA You're the fire burning inside of me. KELVIN O'RALPH I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wis... PETER O'TOOLE I guess relationships are just funny like that. It's impossible to figure out why some work out and ... JENNY O'CONNELL If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen. CONAN O'BRIEN Lasting healing comes from being curious rather than controlling, from mercy rather than manipulatio... MARY O'MALLEY What the hell is that?" he asked. "Magic mushrooms." "I've always wanted to try those," he... HEATHER O'NEILL I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly.Oh, so that we sha... DANIEL O'MALLEY The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was pu... STEWART O'NAN The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ... P.J. O'ROURKE The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations! JENNIFER O'NEILL Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ... ERIN O'RIORDAN Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his... FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. FLANNERY O'CONNOR By subsidiarity is meant the principle that responsibilities should be devolved to the lowest viable... DENIS O'BRIEN For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr... FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. FLANNERY O'CONNOR