Brigham Young Quotes

I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.

If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

I'm me, I live from film to mouth.

I'll never starve.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God.

Of what use is political liberty to those who have no bread? It is of value only to ambitious theorists and politicians.

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.

I didn't just freestyle it. At the end, it's about bread.

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

When you grow up in poverty and learn how to survive it, it's something that stays with you forever.

The best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is our own welfare program. Five or six cans of wheat in the home are better than a bushel in the welfare granary. ... We can begin with a one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs.

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

If you know where your next meal is coming from, you are not poor.

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

First and foremost: Feed people.

Human beings should not be reduced to a state to where they almost get into a fight over a small bar of soap.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.