HUNGER QUOTES III

quotations about hunger

We do not know of an emptier sound than the rumbling of a hungry stomach.

G. D. PRENTICE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Hunger is the best sauce.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Year of the Flood

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Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Year of the Flood

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If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

BUZZ ALDRIN

attributed, Rise Against Hunger

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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.

ANN VOSKAMP

One Thousand Gifts


A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger.

GERVASE MARKHAM

Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen


We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to sh*t. You think anyone in Rwanda's got a f***ing lactose intolerance?!

CHRIS ROCK

stand-up routine


Satisfaction only temporarily relieves hunger. Find the balance, and plant your feet.

JACKIE MORSE KESSLER

Hunger


Hunger allows no choice.

W. H. AUDEN

"September 1, Selected Poems

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Hunger is sharper than the sword.

FRANCIS BEAUMONT & JOHN FLETCHER

The Honest Man's Fortune

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You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. This is how prayer works.

POPE FRANCIS

attributed, Rise Against Hunger


What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

ROBERT LACEY & DANNY DANZIGER

The Year 1000


Hunger makes a fool of a man.

H. G. WELLS

"The Diamond Maker"

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Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.

ROBERT JORDAN

The Eye of the World


Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren't satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

ANN VOSKAMP

One Thousand Gifts


Our body is a circle of messages: communication, feedback, updates. Hunger and satiety are the most basic of these. Every day, we learn more about how this system works. We know what hormones run through the blood screaming, "Eat!" We know which ones follow murmuring, "Enough." We know that it is relatively easy to repress the signal for enough. A gene malfunctions, and a three-year-old girl weighs a hundred pounds: her body does not tell her when to stop eating. That signal is complexly influenced by genetics, chemistry, and culture. For many of us, it has become blurred. Our body doesn't give us the news or doesn't give it with enough emphasis.

SHARMAN APT RUSSELL

Hunger: An Unnatural History


Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.

VERA NAZARIAN

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration


Whatever satisfies hunger is good food.

CHINESE PROVERB

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Hunger eats through stone walls.

DUTCH PROVERB


For prejudice to reduce the threat of hunger effectively, the hungry must be assimilated into a category laden with negative stereotypes. Consequently, the images of the hungry are colored. Dominant-culture whites perceive the hungry as people of color, mostly black. This is true on both a global and domestic level. Despite the fact that the majority of the world's hungry live in Asia, it is African hunger--black hunger--that is the prevailing stereotype. When the hungry are colored black, the principles of attribution that characterize prejudicial perception come into play. The reader will recall that when negative events occur, blame is placed on the victim if that person is a member of an out-group. Correspondingly, the hungry themselves (or, by extension, their parents or their governments) often are blamed for their plight. African people, and hungry Africans in particular, are thought to lack sufficient industriousness or knowledge or integrity. Of course, massive hunger does not readily fit this paradigm. Consequently, when the severity of hunger is extreme and the numbers of hungry immense, such as in a large-scale famine, then the stereotype shifts to that of helpless children bantered about by the cruel but impersonal forces of nature. In either case, hungry people are not viewed as equals; they are not encountered as full human persons with dignity, individuality, and competence.

DAVID L. L. SHIELDS

"Race and Poverty in the Psychology of Prejudice", The Color of Hunger