Anna Howard Shaw Quotes

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

Sometimes, you have to remind yourself that some people are just trying to find something to eat.

The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.

Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?

Hunger allows no choice.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

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

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.

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

There were days when my father didn't have money for food, and we slept hoping the next day something could be got from work.

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?

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

No agitation for political reforms could be carried on by a plague-stricken and starving people. Food was what they needed and most urgently demanded. The political argument died away, drowned in cries and petitions for relief, lost in weepings and wailings for the victims who were perishing in hundreds by the roadsides, in the fields, and in their bare and empty houses.

Yeah, I'll basically do anything to make money for food.

I know how it feels to go hungry.

And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor, starving, become frustrated with life - no. They cannot become frustrated. They have not lived yet - how can they be frustrated? They have hopes. A poor man always has hopes that something is going to happen - if not today then tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow; if not in this life then in the next life.

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 know what it's like to be hungry. I know what it's like to be homeless. I know what it's like to have to choose between breaking the law and feeding yourself. I know what it's like to take meals at shelters and at Salvation Army facilities. I know what it's like to beg for money on the streets.

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.