Nwankwo Kanu Quotes

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.

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

I wish anyone in this world could go to his fridge and pick whatever he wants. Because the day you open your fridge and there is nothing in it, it is difficult.

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

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

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.

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.

I was living on a loaf of bread a week.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

Growing up in a very poor orphanage in Ukraine, there wasn't much food.

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 how it feels to go hungry.

Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.

Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.

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

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.