Raul Julia Quotes

All being poor, the only food they use is the cheapest jn the country—potatoes.

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.

I was living on a loaf of bread a week.

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

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.

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

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

The worst food comes to the poor, which their poverty makes them buy and their necessity makes them eat. Their stomachs are the waste-basket of the State. It is their lot to swallow all the adulterations on the market.

When a poor man has bread, he has no salt, and when he has salt, he has no bread. If he has some seasoning he has no meat. If he has some meat, he has no seasoning.

A lot of times I went to sleep hungry, and not because I was cutting weight for a fight.

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.

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

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.

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.

The federal government spends about $2.51 per child per day to feed them lunch. Out of that, you have to pay for labor, facilities, and administrative costs, leaving about a dollar for food. Imagine trying to feed yourself a nutritious meal every day with only a dollar. Very difficult.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

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.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

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

I get meals when I can, or I have protein shakes.

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.

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.

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.