Free Larry Elder - 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.

Wilfred Peterson - Your birthday is the beginning of your own personal new year. Your first birthday was a beginning, and each new birthday is a chance to begin again, to start over, to take a new gri

Maureen O'Hara - John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

John D. Rockefeller - Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Spike Milligan - As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness.

Caitlin Houston - Words are not enough to express the unconditional love that exists between a mother and a daughter.

Kirstie Alley - For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

John Updike - I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

Chuck Palahniuk - Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Charles Kettering - Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

Dorothy Hamill - My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.

Lawrence R. Klein - Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

George Sand - Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Nelson Mandela - No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

Jon Meacham - World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

William Shakespeare - “It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

Jim Otto - I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.

John Sino - It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy-A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remain as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.

Nelson Mandela - "To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy."

Barbara Delinsky - Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.