Hunger Quotes

While many of us give to the hungry orphan, we have forgotten to love her.

~ Marquita Burke-Dejesus

An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

To fight the poverty, we must feel the poverty.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.

~ Sol Luckman

We cannot fight against the poverty and hunger in the world, when our stomachs are full of delicious food, the fighters must feel the poverty not imagine it.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Coca cola and McDonalds is spreading. Just like hunger and poverty.

~ Tim Goossens

Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.

~ Paula Brackston

Honesty is not a virtue, it is a luxury. Most, who struggle to put bread on the table, face this question every day. And hunger wins this game almost every time, beta (son).

~ Prashant Chopra

Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Every time I look at my wallet; I don’t care how much money is there, I just want to know, does it make for this time food?

~ M.f. Moonzajer

When it was cooler, Trazada made a simple meal of sausage, cheese, and bread. She had schooled herself to wait dinner until hunger urged her to eat; it gave seasoning to poor food that no spice could furnish.(The Generalissimo's Butterfly)

~ Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged in the crossroads of history and talked hot and mean about the colored, giving my poor and desperate people a reason to feel superior to somebody, to anybody. I know that even as the words of George Wallace rang through my Alabama, the black family who lived down the dirt road from our house sent fresh-picked corn and other food to the poor white lady and her three sons, because they knew their daddy had run off, because hungry does not have a color.

~ Rick Bragg

Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty, that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Everyday 25,000 people die from poverty and hunger. And we have forgotten that they are also human.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all of these things for everyone if only they could. There is hope after all.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach.

~ Tahir Shah

Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.

~ Criss Jami

One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture.

~ Marshall Sahlins

Before saying anything further about culture, I consider the world is hungry and does not care about culture, and people artificially want to turn these thoughts away from hunger and direct them towards culture.

~ Antonin Artaud

The great anxious focus on the minutiae of appetite—on calories and portion size and what's going into the body versus what's being expended, on shoes and hair and abs of steel—keeps the larger, more fearsome questions of desire blurred and out of focus. American women spend approximately $1 million every hour on cosmetics. This may or may not say something about female vanity, but it certainly says something about female energy, where it is and is not focused. Easier to worry about the body than the soul, easier to fit the self into the narrow slots of identity our culture offers to women than to create one...that allows for the expression of all passions, the satisfaction of all appetites. The great preoccupation with things like food and shopping and appearance, in turn, is less of a genuine focus on hunger—indulging it, understanding it, making decisions about it—than it is a monumental distraction from hunger.

~ Caroline Knapp

BE HAPPY YOU CAN HAVE THE RICE,MANY CAN'T AFFORD THE PRICE.I CAN CONTROL MY ANGER,WHAT WILL I DO IN HUNGER ?

~ Merlin8Thomas

Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.

~ Auliq Ice

An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I like the feeling of hunger for it reminds me of all those hundreds of months without you.Missing you, thinking of you, like a friendly lonely thin tiger smelling the slip of a season into a new season.

~ Waylon H. Lewis

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

~ Stephen King

Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.

~ H.g. Wells

We need the life… We need to know what we take left someone weaker or dead. It reminds us what we were. The Hunger when you start out, it isn't in the stomach or brain. You want to kill because you hate that others get to live.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

If we fail, the planet will grow sterile and your people will die in hunger, thirst and waves of plagues. Our people and the thrm's will die more slowly because the poisons here will render us unable to conceive. The skies will cease to be blue, the land will lose its verdure and the seas, well, the seas will be the first to go. Anything that does survive will be broken, mutant, discontinuous from us and mutually exclusive. It will be the new life of a shattered world, a world for chitinous, crawly things, not one for soft and tender emotion. I hope, child, I have answered your question.Meg said nothing. None of it made sense, but she still felt an urge to deny it, deny it, even though Ekaterina's strange, rolling words carried a ring of truth. Suddenly, the autumn chill cut through all her layers of bundling wraps. She could not stop shivering.

~ Robert Stikmanz

Beautiful, enticing, forbidden fruit will be offered to you when your hunger is greatest. If you are foolish enough to reach for it, your fingers will sink into the rotten mush on the back side. That's the way sin operates in our lives. It promises everything. It delivers nothing but disgust and heartache.

~ James C. Dobson

If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.

~ Michael Grant

After a full belly all is poetry.

~ Frank Mccourt

Here are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every human being on the planet. - Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population -- 2 billion men and women -- malnourished one way or another, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

~ Michael Dorris

No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on a daily basis? Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food. Take that away and I'm not really sure who I am, what my identity is. The idea scares me some.

~ Suzanne Collins

When the average American says, “I’m starving,” it is a prelude to a midnight raid on a well-stocked refrigerator or a sudden trip to the nearest fast food restaurant.

~ Carolyn Custis James

I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I'm scoring a goal in hockey.

~ Jack Gantos

You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships.You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones.

~ Harlan Coben

Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.

~ M.f.k. Fisher

Shukhov ate his supper without bread--a double portion and bread on top of it would be too rich. So he'd save the bread. You get no thanks from your belly--it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn