Ninette de Valois Quotes

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.

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

I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?

England seizes our food whilst death seizes on our people.

The misery of the people here is very great, the beggars innumerable and increasing everyday…One half of the people in Ireland eat neither bread nor flesh for one half of the year, nor wear Shoes or Stockings; your Hogs in England and Essex Calves lie and live better than they.

The whole district seemed swept of food and a third of the population would be without food at Christmas, two thirds starving before February and by May 1848, there would be a total starvation.

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.

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

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.

Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

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

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

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

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

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

The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.

I am dying of hunger.

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.

When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

Death by starvation is slow.

In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.