English Proverb or Saying Quotes

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

I had to steal to survive.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes.

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke.

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.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

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.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

I had my hustle. It was whatever I could do to not end up working in a factory. If I had to shake it like a showgirl, I was going to do it.

If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive.

No one walks into a food bank with their head held high.

I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in the cupboard.

I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there.

There is nothing remotely dignified about sorting through rotting trash to find something to feed your child, or asking someone for money because you have none (anyone who has contrived to give people money before they had to ask will never forget the look of gratitude in their eyes).