Carolina Maria de Jesus Quotes

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

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.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

When you're drinking from a creek, it's not a good news story. When you don't have food for a baby, it's not a good news story.

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.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

Sometimes, you have to remind yourself that some people are just trying to find something to eat.

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known 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.

Being a mom, I can't imagine my child not having a meal. That's hard to digest.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.

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.

Bread did not have its usual nourishing power and strength because the grain was not nourished by the warmth of summer sunshine. Hence those who ate it, even in large quantities, were hungry again after a little while. There can be no doubt that the poor wasted away when even the rich were constantly hungry.... Four pennies worth of coarse bread was not enough to feed a common man for one day. The usual kinds of meat, suitable for eating, were too scarce; horse meat was precious; plump dogs were stolen. And, according to many reports, men and women in many places secretly ate their own children....

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.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.

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.

Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

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

Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

Hunger allows no choice.

Our great country is rich and abundant in so many ways. It is totally unacceptable to me that we have children and families going hungry!