Serge Ibaka Quotes

I lived in the streets for three years when I was a kid, and every day, I didn't know where my next meal would come from.

I know what it's like to lose your home. I know what it's like to be hungry. I know what it's like to lose a family member because of a lack of health care. So all of these things aren't just political issues for me. All of these things are personal to me.

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.

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

My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.

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

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

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.

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

There were days when my father didn't have money for food, and we slept hoping the next day something could be got from work.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

I used to fill my stomach with water because I didn't have money to pay for food.

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.

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.

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.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

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.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

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

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

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.