Hunger Quotes

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will.

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.

Focusing on one thing can be tough, and people with fewer options are more apt to concentrate on what they're doing. There's probably something to hunger.

You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger.

I have repeatedly stressed that we have the knowledge to reduce hunger and poverty.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

Hunger. It's like an animal trapped inside you, Thomas thought.

As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.

True ecstasy is stepping out of the bondage of the time-bound, space-bound world. We long to be free of fear and limitation. We hunger to experience our infinite, unbounded Self.

Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour !

There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.

It's appalling that there should be hunger anywhere, but particularly in a country like America, where there is also such great wealth.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

Love comes with hunger.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

I suspect that hunger was my mother.

Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!

I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.

So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

There is a hunger in every human being for approval.

In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.

The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

I’m one uncontrollable hunger away from ruin.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

Jen[nifer Lawrence]'s main goal in life is to get me to laugh while we're filming sad scenes. And it's the HUNGER GAMES.

Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.

Hunger is the mother of anarchy.