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Quotes About Hunger

Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.
~ Robert Burns
Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily
~ Gwendolyn B. Bennett
The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".
~ David Shields
[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?
~ Lemon Andersen
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
~ Bob Geldof
It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger.
~ Mandy Patinkin
WE MUST ALL EAT OR ELSE WE WILL PUT SAND IN YOUR FOOD.
~ Job Amupanda
You can get what you want.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
God releases more of His power and presence according to the measure of our hunger for Him.
~ Mike Bickle
Greed may not be good, but it's not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can't have.
~ Hiromu Arakawa
Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.
~ Will Rogers
life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death." I
~ Will Schwalbe
Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
~ Willa Cather
as if the earth under our feetwerean excrement of some skyand we degraded prisonersdestinedto hunger until we eat filth
~ William Carlos Williams
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
~ William E. Barrett
Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
~ William Law
You have seen, that the Properties of Nature are, and can be, nothing else in their own Life, but a restless Hunger, Disquiet, and blind Strife for they know not what, till the Property of Light and Love has got Possession of them.
~ William Law
For Nature and Creature, without the Christ of God or the Divine Life in Union with it, is and can be nothing else but this mere Emptiness, Hunger, and Want of all that which can alone make it good and happy.
~ William Law
By now it was nearly noon and I was hungry, so we made a quick run to Mr. Burger, a tiny carryout place a mile down the road, and wolfed down lunch standing outside the cemetery shop. We positioned ourselves upwind from the coffin, but occasionally the wind would shift and the aroma of burgers would mingle with the aroma of the Bopper.
~ William M. Bass
Everyone is hungry. That won't stop
~ David Benioff
Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.
~ David Brin
Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.
~ David Clement-Davies