Hunger Quotes

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and economic development.

Project X now, but it started as a Hunger Game.

For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

After a full belly all is poetry.

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.

No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

When we work to end childhood hunger, we are giving our love to kids who need it so much they will never ask for it.

That which could hunger, could starve.

The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

There is a hunger to see the human presence acted out. As long as that need remains, people will find a way to do theater.

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they hunger for life after death(on Russian slave laborers.)

You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

As long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.

We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handed.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.

To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel us to share and provide a secure future for the children of our country.

... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness.

Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end sexism?

My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.

Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

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.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Hunger feeds the need to succeed.

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

Not only in the creative world but also in the sports world. The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.

Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.