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Quotes About Hunger

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
~ Mother Teresa
Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
~ Victor Hugo
I suspect that hunger was my mother.
~ Plautus
All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.
~ Suzanne Collins
I always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
~ Cat Stevens
I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.
~ Merle Travis
For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation.
~ John F. Kennedy
We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.
~ J.B. Priestley
john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that
~ David Baldacci, The Finisher
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat in the active and passive.
~ Dean William R. Inge
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
~ W. C. Brann
Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.
~ George McGovern
If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.
~ Cesar Chavez
As long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.
~ Willy Brandt
Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?
~ Anne Frank
Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.
~ Peter Ustinov
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.
~ Dennis Weaver
Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
~ Jackson Browne
Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.
~ John Gay
We always crave what we don't have.
~ Bunny Naidu
More people die from the hunger of love than from the lack of food.
~ Debasish Mridha
The three most powerful seasonings are hunger, variety, and gratitude.
~ Neel Burton
Life gives you what you are deeply longing for.
~ Debasish Mridha M.D.