Sumerian Proverb Quotes

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

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

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

I know what poverty is.

A lot of times I went to sleep hungry, and not because I was cutting weight for a fight.

Where I grew up, there were times when we didn't have anything to eat.

I was living on a loaf of bread a week.

I come from a family where some nights you don't know where food's going to come from. There's nights where you're going to have go to bed hungry.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

I wish anyone in this world could go to his fridge and pick whatever he wants. Because the day you open your fridge and there is nothing in it, it is difficult.

I left home because I was hungry.

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

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

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.

Hunger's a great spur.

I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education.

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?

Hunger is the teacher of many.

Wealth is far away. Poverty is near.

When you're drinking from a creek, it's not a good news story. When you don't have food for a baby, it's not a good news story.

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.