Benjamin Franklin Quotes

… the unhappy Peasant cannot survive in his humble shelter; today pigswill is his only nourishment; what was once lavished on swine is now shared between man and beast. The People ask only for bread; they are even willing to pay for it with the sweat of their brows: at least let them eat it without watering it with tears.

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

No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.

I wasn't really into music. I was into the streets. I was too worried about the streets and how I was going to eat and how I was going to make the streets happen.

Where I grew up, there were times when we didn't have anything to eat.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

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

Yeah, I'll basically do anything to make money for food.

I know how it feels to go hungry.

Place gifts of silver in our hands. Give us this day our daily fish.

And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor, starving, become frustrated with life - no. They cannot become frustrated. They have not lived yet - how can they be frustrated? They have hopes. A poor man always has hopes that something is going to happen - if not today then tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow; if not in this life then in the next life.

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.

My brain's not sharp enough to come up with a witty comment.

Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving.

Without bread all is misery.

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

Hunger is the handmaid of genius.

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.

Brains are not everything.