Natalia Vodianova Quotes

When you are already eating as cheaply and meagerly as possible, any raise in cost can quickly plunge you and your family into hunger.

When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.

We came from nothing really. One house. Ten people. Even days the lights was off. The worst days was not eating. Surviving off rice and toast.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

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

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

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.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

I was doing shows and flying economy, and nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so cheap that by the time I'd get in, there wasn't any room service. I didn't eat for a long time. Not on purpose. You'd be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane, and the food would be so disgusting you couldn't eat it.

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

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

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

There are a lot of myths about food banks, but the truth is that many people are increasingly having to turn to them just to put food on the table, including many in work.

Sometimes, we didn't have enough to eat. I'd go to school with no lunch money, and my school would have to provide it.

I know how it feels to go hungry.

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day.

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.

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 just want to tell you what it's like not to have Planned Parenthood... you have to give your kids Ramen noodles at the end of the month to fill up their little bellies so they won't cry. You have to give them mayonnaise sandwiches. They get very few fruits and vegetables because they're expensive.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.