Patty Duke Quotes

All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.

Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.

I'm not so interested in technology for technology's sake. I don't need incredibly sophisticated climate-control systems. And I'm absolutely amazed at the time people spend exchanging messages; I don't have a lot of time left over for those things.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.

More combat planes, missiles and soldiers won't provide additional bread for our families, desks for our schools, or medicine for our clinics.

In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.

What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.

It seems that everywhere I go, people want the same things - security, education, family. It's just that so many people have no avenues through which to obtain these things.

All I care about is providing and living every day. I don't care about world titles, being a legend, or being a hero.

No man can live well, or indeed live at all, unless he be provided with necessaries.

We are not expecting Utopia here on this earth. But God meant things to be much easier than we have made them. A man has a natural right to food, clothing, and shelter. A certain amount of goods is necessary to lead a good life.

We don't want to end up in a class war. We want everyone to have food, clean water, and a long life expectancy.

The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.

I really love fashion, but I feel like the older I get, the more I am drawn to the basic things in my daily life because everything else is so goofy and crazy.

I've seen that most of us want the same things: to be safe where we live, secure in our finances, and free in our lives.

In every single place I have campaigned in and every single place I have lived, people want some fairly basic things. They want to believe that they are safe, they want to know that their children will be educated and that if they are ill, they will be made better.

With small spaces in particular you have to really follow the rule that if it's not absolutely beautiful or absolutely functional, then get rid of it.

We don't have to eat the best food to survive: a basic diet will get us through. We wear clothes to stay warm and hide our modesty, they don't need to be the latest designer collection.