War Kids Relief

Famous quotes containing the words war, kids and/or relief:

    “The war is utter damn nonsense—a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking [sic] malignity on the part of those who don’t do the fighting.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    “I don’t know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I’ve never been bored a day in my life.”
    —Jodie Foster (b. 1962)

    “The first general store opened on the ‘Cold Saturday’ of the winter of 1833 ... Mrs. Mary Miller, daughter of the store’s promoter, recorded in a letter: ‘Chickens and birds fell dead from their roosts, cows ran bellowing through the streets’; but she failed to state what effect the freeze had on the gala occasion of the store opening.”
    —Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)