Anne Hegerty Quotes

I was living on a loaf of bread a week.

We were poor and lived modestly, but we always had food on the table.

I come from a family where some nights you don't know where food's going to come from. There's nights where you're going to have go to bed hungry.

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.

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.

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

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.

No American should have to choose between heating and eating.

None of us want to ever face a choice between putting food on the table or paying rent.

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.

It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

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.

In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

I left home because I was hungry.

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

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

I thought it was normal to recycle pants and shoes from your older cousins. That was just my way of life. At the end of the month, there was not much food in the refrigerator and you're hoping the first comes so food can come again. You never forget those things.

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.