Tim Curry Quotes

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 next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

People were consuming on average less calories after the war than during the war. Things were still very tough. If you look at the film footage of London streets, even in areas which weren't slums, there are kids in the streets who are dirty and have no shoes on. It was rough. There was a real edge.

The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are a great number of working poor, struggling to survive, who don't have enough money to put adequate food on the table. We must find a solution to this ever-increasing problem - and quickly.

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

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.

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.

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

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

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't.

One in six people in the U.S. at some point each year don't know where their next meal will come from.

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.

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.

No one has starved.

On my way back to Missouri I stopped in St Louis and I saw my first bread line – 200 starving men forming a gray line as they waited for food. The sight of them disturbed me.

The English proletariat lives under such wretched conditions that a few extra privations will not cause it much discomfort.

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.

In Spain, there is a good deal to see but not much to eat.

Sire, have pity on the Spanish infantry, which, for lack of pay and out of sheer starvation, is scouring the low country round, plundering the peasantry in mere need of food. These disorders I cannot repress, much less can I punish them, for necessity has no law.

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

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.

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.