Deprivation Quotes

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

When you love food as much as I do, staying healthy is not easy. I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living. I always want more and that's just my life.

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.

I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.

It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.