Marcus Samuelsson Quotes

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

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.

Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

Too many children and adults go hungry every day.

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.

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.

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

After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.

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.

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

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

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

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.

In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

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.

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.

The awful phantom of the hungry poor.

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

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 loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.

There's a lot of children that go to bed every night hungry in New York City, and it's shameful. That's really disturbing to me.

In 2020, no child should go hungry, and yet, in South Carolina 1-in-5 children do.