Food Quote by Anya Von Bremzen

“Poor thing, consigned to a life of frivolousness and wretched things for breakfast. Not allowed to go to school or do anything worthwhile, and…

— Connie Willis

“They scolded working mothers who were damaging their poor kids by their need to make a living.”

— Victor LaValle

“The sight of all the food stacked in those kitchens made me dizzy. It's not that we hadn't enough to eat at home, it's…

— Sylvia Plath

“Saturday night when you have a few shillings in your pocket is the most delicious night of the week.”

— Frank McCourt

“My mother by then had already begun her own decline, her own transformation, hardening into a bitter rind of a woman who pushed through…

— James Sallis

“I used to wonder why... Mum kept having babies... that was the only pleasure poor people could afford . It cost nothing--at least at…

— Margaret Powell

“My mom often said "We're not poor, we just don't have much money.”

— Les Cochran

“People are not poor because they’ve made bad choices, my mother liked to say, they make bad choices because they’re poor.”

— Zadie Smith

“I remember saying to my mother, ‘Why do you have so many children? Is it hard to have children?’ And she said, ‘Oh, no.…

— Margaret Powell

“I can't imagine what kind of poverty would motivate a person to forget themselves and everyone they loved so their families could get a…

— Veronica Roth

“When some people talk about money They speak as if it were a mysterious lover Who went out to buy milk and never Came…

— Tracy K. Smith

“There is really nothing you gain from being a pauper rather you loose every thing.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu