Charles Dickens Quotes

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

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.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

The awful phantom of the hungry poor.

I don't just live in a bubble in Los Angeles. I'm on the road all the time. I say hello to people everywhere. That way, you get to see what despair is around the holidays. People are making terrible choices: Do I have heat in the winter or food on the table? Decisions between filling the gas tank or buying a gift for a kid.

I knew when I left school, my stomach would probably hurt from having nothing to eat, and I would be going back to those same circumstances that were breaking me.

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.

Devoutly the teachers point out huge fumigated domes; but beneath the statues there's no love, no love beneath the eyes set in crystal. Love is there, in flesh ripped by thirst, in the tiny hut struggling against the flood; love is there, in ditches where snakes of hunger wrestle, in the sad sea that rocks dead gulls, and in the darkest stinging kiss under pillows.

My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls

The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle.

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.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

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

I don't care if I starve.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

I left home because I was hungry.

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

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

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

In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.