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Quotes About Hunger

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.
~ Meridel Le Sueur
Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.
~ Pearl S. Buck
A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.
~ Henry Rollins
The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.
~ Jay Saunders Redding
As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Man's restlessness makes him strive.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.
~ John Steinbeck
I don't even have money for a cheeseburger!
~ Allen Iverson
Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried.
~ Ice Cube
Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.
~ John Lee Hooker
I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.
~ Margaret Mitchell
What's a soup kitchen?
~ Paris Hilton
I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
~ Natalia Vodianova
People are dying of starvation and famine.And you have a MASSERATTI!
~ Anthony T. Hincks
If you are not willing to serve God in the abundance that He has given you, then you will have to serve your enemy in hunger
~ Sunday Adelaja
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
~ Dallas Willard
It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.
~ Bashar al-Assad
There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.
~ Peter De Vries
In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.
~ Leon Askin
Its hard in the firehouse to avoid the dessert thing. At 3 in the morning after some emergency, I have been known to eat an ice cream sandwich.
~ Caroline Paul