quotations about hunger
The fact is that this generation -- yours, my generation ... we're the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, we can be the first to end this sort of stupid extreme poverty, where in the world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in it's belly.
BONO
2004 PENN Address
We do not know of an emptier sound than the rumbling of a hungry stomach.
G. D. PRENTICE
attributed, Day's Collacon
I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
ANN VOSKAMP
One Thousand Gifts
Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Year of the Flood
Satisfaction only temporarily relieves hunger. Find the balance, and plant your feet.
JACKIE MORSE KESSLER
Hunger
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
If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.
BUZZ ALDRIN
attributed, Rise Against Hunger
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT & JOHN FLETCHER
The Honest Man's Fortune
Hunger allows no choice.
W. H. AUDEN
"September 1, Selected Poems
Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.
VERA NAZARIAN
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
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
Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.
ROBERT JORDAN
The Eye of the World
What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.
ROBERT LACEY & DANNY DANZIGER
The Year 1000
You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. This is how prayer works.
POPE FRANCIS
attributed, Rise Against Hunger
Hunger makes a fool of a man.
H. G. WELLS
"The Diamond Maker"
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
Whatever satisfies hunger is good food.
CHINESE PROVERB
Hunger eats through stone walls.
DUTCH PROVERB
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Julius Caesar