Joan Chen Quotes

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.

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

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

When you are already eating as cheaply and meagerly as possible, any raise in cost can quickly plunge you and your family into hunger.

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

I have stopped at farm after farm where lean, underfed women and sickly men repeated again and again the same story—little food and no opportunity to get more.

The awful phantom of the hungry poor.

I was living on a loaf of bread a week.

I would take vouchers, do sums in my head just to get some eggs and bread or a tin of cheap Irish stew. I'd be starving and want two tins but couldn't afford it. The poorer you are the hungrier you feel.

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.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

A hungry man is not a free man.

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.

40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.

When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.

No one has starved.

No American should have to choose between heating and eating.

If Victual should prove scarce, as we have not Goods or Money for any Value to send out for Corns [food grains like wheat]; so only a part of the People could be maintained: The better part would have Bread, but the more necessary part, the Laboring Men would be forced to leave the Country, or to starve in it.

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.

It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want.