Quote

When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.

Andy Rooney

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andy Rooney
Age: 92 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 14
Died: 2011
Died: November 4
Journalist
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Albany
New York
Andrew Aitken Andy Rooney
Andrew Aitken Rooney
Much
Cooking
World
Entertainment
People
Eating
Americans
Food
Wrong
Seems
Nourishment
Many
Starving

More quotes by Andy Rooney

Image
Some people who hated Americans set out to kill a lot of us and they succeeded [on 9/11]....We're trying to protect ourselves with more weapons. We have to do it, I guess, but it might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn't make so many people in the world want to kill us.
Andy Rooney
Image
Unfortunately, propaganda works.
Andy Rooney
Image
Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
Andy Rooney
Image
It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.
Andy Rooney
Image
I like animals who trust people.
Andy Rooney
Image
People like to say, You're only as old as you feel, but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.
Andy Rooney
Image
We aren't consistent in our treatment of animals.
Andy Rooney
Image
Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.
Andy Rooney
Image
We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.
Andy Rooney
Image
There are sixteen cans of coffee here together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating?
Andy Rooney
Image
The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!
Andy Rooney
Image
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
Andy Rooney
Image
I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?
Andy Rooney
Image
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
Andy Rooney
Image
Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others
Andy Rooney
Image
Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.
Andy Rooney
Image
I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
Andy Rooney
Image
Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
Andy Rooney
Image
In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.
Andy Rooney
Image
the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
Andy Rooney