#starve

Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hunger. The summer catch had been poor; there wasn't much food. They ate with care and looked sideways at the old: the old were gluttons, everybody knew it, and what was the good of feeding them? It wouldn't harm them to starve a little. The hungry dogs howled. The women rinsed the children's bellies with hot water three times a day, so they wouldn't cry so much for food. The old starved silently. ("The North") ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#hunger #oldl-starve #poor #poverty #starvation

Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man. ↗

— Wes Montgomery

#florida #gig #good #got #group

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#been #body #certain #empty #excellent

I never starved myself. ↗

— Tatjana Patitz

#myself #never #starved

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#bills #make #middle-class #middle-class people #need

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists. ↗

— Larry Niven

#even #hindsight #inevitable #may #out

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#barren #cases #consequence #death #dreadful

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio. ↗

— John Tesh

#chemistry #death #eventually #got #grew

It's better to star in Oshkosh than to starve on Broadway. ↗

— James Gleason

#broadway #star #starve #than

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

#cloth #coat #i #man #pity