7 Movie Quotes about Great Depression (+ Sound Clips)

Memorable quotes about great depression, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Then the depression came. I got a job with the W.P.A., shoveling snow to eat. That's how I met Alice: she used to hand out the shovels.

Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners (1955)

2 Just like my family. They couldn't wait for the depression, they went broke during the boom.

Howard Duff in Batman (1966)

3 Economists say that the economic inequality is at its worst level since the days of the Great Depression.

Quote from New Jack City

4 For 30 years I was an honest bank clerk, until the Depression of 1930 in which year I found myself unemployed.

Quote from Monsieur Verdoux

5 In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone? The Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill...

Quote from Ferris Bueller's Day Off

6 Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression.

Quote from Ferris Bueller's Day Off

7 Well, you remember during the Depression years, you know, when you couldn't get a job?

Quote from The Honeymooners (1955)