Quotes About Hunger

In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

Why do we need to support the food stamp program? Because low-income families experience unemployment at a far higher rate than other income groups. Because cutting nutritional assistance programs is immoral and shortsighted, and protecting families from hunger improves their health and educational outcomes.

1819 was a year of hunger, mass unemployment, political repression and murderous, state-sanctioned violence.

Food is such a basic need, and it is unfathomable to me that people still do not have adequate access.

In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.

Knowledge and wisdom are both the signs of hunger and thirst of creativity.

If hunger could please God, millions hadn't starved to death.

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

Hunger gives flavour to the food.

If a lion invites you to dinner, turn down the offer, no matter how hungry you are.

A wolf's thoughts are seldom far from its appetite.

A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.

When the tables are turned, whoever was full becomes hungry.

Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog's lifestyle.

Seeing a young band, seeing that hunger and the raw spontaneity, is good for me. It keeps me young, so to speak.

As a member of the Feeding America Entertainment Council, I recognize our mission to spread the word and rally the country in the fight to end hunger.

Life is difficult in Africa, even getting three square meals.

Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college.

Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.