Gene Kelly Quotes

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

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

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?

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

I can cook because my life depended on it when I lived in Thailand. Either I learnt cooking, or I learnt how it felt to starve. I chose cooking.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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.

Of what use is political liberty to those who have no bread? It is of value only to ambitious theorists and politicians.

Food is a weapon.

People who, whether they inhabit the desert or settled areas and cities, live a life of abundance and have all the good things to eat, die more quickly than others when a drought or famine comes upon them

Hunger is not debatable.

I eat to survive, you know?

There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.

Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.

Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.

If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?

We must have hope or starve to death.

Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.

My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain.

First and foremost: Feed people.

I can cook, I can breathe, I can live!