Polo G Quotes

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

I know what it is to have nothing.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

There was a time when I had nothing. I lost everything.

Where I grew up, there were times when we didn't have anything to eat.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at times, I would stop and look into the trash cans, and if there was a half a sandwich, I would take that sandwich and eat it. It was just a matter of survival. I didn't think much of it, but it was just the way things were.

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

I left home because I was hungry.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

It is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

Whole families used to starve in their cabins without their plight being discovered until the stench of their decaying corpses attracted notice.