Quotes About Hunger

Remember that food would not have a taste if it weren't for hunger;

You should learn to relish the hunger more than the feast, lest you become a glutton.

Her appetite was a casualty of the day.

Well, she could learn self-control tomorrow. Today she wanted pizza.

La noche voluptuosa sube, sosegándolo todo, hasta el hambre. Borrándolo todo, hasta la vergüenza…

I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread

I'm hungry," she said. "Let me cook!" "I'm hungry too. I'll eat you!

I needed coffee, two coffees, a bite to eat.

Eating seemed very important.

I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.

Borlaug seldom replied directly, though the attacks stung. In private, he told friends that most of the criticism was sheer elitism. Somehow rich environmentalists in the West thought the world was better off if people in poor areas didn't improve their lives. He had nothing against organic this or that but it was unrealistic to promote it as a solution to hunger in the world of 10 billion. And it was immoral to stand in the way of feeding hungry people.

The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.

Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.

Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we must find another to cleave to with all our strength --or else we die.

We should feel the same pity for minds that do not eat as for stomachs. If there be anything sadder than a body perishing for want of bread, it is a mind dying of hunger for lack of light."77

I get miserable if I don't eat.

I don't think I've ever missed a meal.

There are places all over the world that are missing burger places.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.

Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.

My own motivation has come from the fact that all the indicators in the world, the hunger index or whatever index you say, shows a high prevalence of malnutrition.

Seeing the poor as one vast homogenous mass, we overlook that saving ten children from a painful death by hunger does make a real difference, all the difference for these children, and that this difference is quite significant even when many other children remain hungry.