Katie Piper Quotes

It has been tough when I have been with the national team and we have gone to play in some of the poorer areas in Brazil. You see people come and watch us train or play a match, and then you know some of them are going home with no food on the plate.

Most people who rely on food banks are there through no fault of their own.

The awful phantom of the hungry poor.

All too easily I have had people dismiss food poverty as an affliction of the workless and idle, insinuating that it is a way of life only for those who choose it. Yet the reality couldn't be more different.

When upmarket shops like Waitrose collect contributions for local food banks, they serve as a constant reminder to those of my constituents who are lucky enough not to have to worry about where their next meal will come from that those less fortunate than themselves are increasing in number, and suffering more than ever.

Many people assume that since New Jersey is a wealthy state with a high per capita income that a lot of these issues of poverty and hunger don't exist, and the fact is that they do.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

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

My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.

Anytime you cut food stamps, it naturally affects sales. People spend less.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.

It’s poverty and hunger that drive these students to the madrasahs.

Most people are poor at some time in their lives. But poverty is no excuse for committing crime.

Hunger in America is an American problem. The hunger of one should be the concern of all. Especially the hunger of children - our children.

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

In 2008/9 26,000 people in the U.K. relied on emergency food aid from a foodbank; which was 26,000 too many.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.