Simon Cowell Quotes

I did everything to get food. I have stolen for food. I have jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food. I have befriended people in the neighborhood who I knew had mothers who cooked three meals a day for food, and I sacrificed a childhood for food and grew up in immense shame.

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.

A question I'm often asked by viewers is - what do I do when I taste something I don't like in one of our food segments? First of all you need to know that I like almost everything. Eating makes me hungry. That said, occasionally when something one of our guests whips up is not to my liking I'll usually say something like 'mmmmm... interesting.'

I had a very difficult upbringing.

Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and I see it as a bit of an affliction.

I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.

All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs. From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse.

It is not a pleasure to be here. It's an embarrassment that we come so late, and that there are so few of us here.... It's an embarrassment that so much of the media are missing. They are more concerned with someone who drinks too much, when we are trying to deal with the issue of millions of people who are not eating at all.

Thousands of American children have only a cell, a hospital bed or a temporary shelter to call home.

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.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

If a man dies of hunger, all the people of the district are responsible for his death

Hold your kids from eating for 3 or 4 days, and see what they tell you on the 5th day. Hunger is a bad thing.

It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want.

When a poor man has bread, he has no salt, and when he has salt, he has no bread. If he has some seasoning he has no meat. If he has some meat, he has no seasoning.

It's hunger. It's homelessness, often. It's underfunded, under-resourced schools. It's abuse beyond the chilling. It's having overwhelmed parents and caregivers. Those are the things that young people are struggling with beyond our view.

We will be guilty of criminal negligence, without extenuation, if we permit future famines.

People are surprised by the poverty and think that I wasn't cared for. But that wasn't the case - I was deeply loved.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

Food poverty comes in two strands. The first is not having enough money to buy food for yourself and your family. The second is poverty of education.

The one thing that made me somewhat of an animal is I didn't have anything growing up.