Leroy Chiao Quotes

I don't care who you are, life has challenges.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

I was born in 1928, so in 1943, 1944, we had the war in Rome. There were a lot of hardships, a lack of food, many shortages. So when I worked with the Americans, the English, and the Canadians soon after the war, when I played with them, they paid me with food. That will give you an idea how widespread poverty was at that time.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

Things aren't always full of sunshine, there has to be friction at times as well.

Everyone faces adversity.

We're all brought up in a world that isn't the best place for us to be in once in a while. There are so many problems and we try to overcome them all.

Life is a series of problems.

Life is never completely without its challenges.

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.

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.

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

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Everybody has problems.

I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

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

They that die by famine die by inches.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.