Hunger Quotes

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!

Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.

Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?

As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others.

WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

Hunger is the best pickle.

I think there is a spiritual hunger, and I think that people are really tired of getting kind of a two-dimensional take on religion in most of the media.

It is inconceivable that, in the richest nation in the world, we have 30 million people at risk of hunger. I believe that, if we truly make a commitment as a nation, we can defeat hunger.

The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.

After hunger, a human's most important need is to know what is virtuous.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease.

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.

Hungry bellies have no ears. [Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]

You know what the problem is with world hunger? We've been sending them food.

Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full

Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body.

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else

Aqua Teen Hunger Force is one of the funniest shows on TV and I was a little intimidated working with those guys 'cause you're in a sound booth by yourself and they're all in a room in Atlanta.

Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.

Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop.

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

People hunger for more attention. Full attention will be the aphrodisiac of the future.

The God of Love lives in a state of need.

Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.