Robert McCloskey Quotes

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

One year was so bad for me and my wife that we were going to have to sell our house until Elaine decided to change career and earn some money.

When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.

l had a job, and if you had a job in the depression you were rich.

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

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.

It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that's not the case.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.

Having money is great. It's fun. The more the better.

I would passionately make the case that the harder the times, the more we need things that aren't just about keeping our job and making a buck - important though those things are. Arts programming isn't some sort of add-on or ornamental luxury.

As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

Solvency feels better than anything you can spend money on.

Financial storm definitely passed.

I wish I had millions in the bank; I'd never go broke. Let's get that belt and get millions in the bank.