Art Modell Quotes

I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.

There was no drive because I wanted to become a great designer... I had two small children and a mother, and we all had to eat. That's the drive I had.

Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.

I worked as a truck driver, carpenter's assistant, doing whatever it took to keep bread on the table for the family.

Money is kind of just like air - if you don't have air, you can't breathe. If you don't have money, I don't think you'll want to breathe - you won't want to live.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.

I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?

You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.

Life isn't all me. I have a family to support. I can't rob them of a good life simply because I want to play something.

I need to make money. If I don't, I cannot survive.

Some people were breaking in to get food for their families. They were in survivor mode. Don’t confuse that with a guy carting off a 64 inch television set and looting…. The test is take the mirror and put it in front of your face and ask what would you do.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

I didn't just freestyle it. At the end, it's about bread.

I have to grow up and be my own man and look after my own family and make sure that my wife and baby are comfortable with what I'm saying, so if that affects them, then it affects me.

Always have to think like a guy with no food in his refrigerator.

I do know that no matter what, I know within myself that if I have to work at McDonald's, I will do what it takes to provide for my kids, period.

I'm gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.