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Quotes About Hunger

If you wait too long between breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner, you're more likely to be ravenous and overeat and/or make poor food choices.
~ Harley Pasternak
When you're trying to lose weight, one of the most important things you can do is eat three decent meals a day so that you're not so hungry that you can't get food off your mind. Habit and hunger have long been the basic, insidious enemies of the overweight. We can't fight hunger, but we can fight habit.
~ Jean Nidetch
When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.
~ Tom Lehrer
It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.
~ Tom Perrotta
This machine is driven in part by the oscillations of novelty and familiarity, of hunger and satiation, that curious internal psychophysical calculus that causes us to tire of food, music, the color orange. But it is also driven in part by the subtle movements of people trying to be like each other and people trying to be different from each other.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.
~ Tom Vilsack
There's no prayer like desire.
~ Tom Waits
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
~ Tom Wolfe
Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
and their families are hungry. They don't have guns. Wouldn't hurt
~ Tony Hillerman
socialism has only two fundamental problems: lunch and dinner.
~ Unknown
I don't trust people with empty-stomach breath to tell me what taste is.
~ Unknown
Can we go in to supper now?" she asked. "I'm starved. I hope they serve something other than lobster patties and caviar." He linked their arms again and started toward the dining room. "Never fear, my dear. I won't let you starve. I shall go to the kitchens myself if need be and raid the larder for bread and cheese." She laughed and leaned against him. "My hero.
~ Unknown
Why do the babies starve When there's enough food to feed the world Why when there're so many of us Are there people still alone
~ Tracy Chapman
Don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for a taste of justice Hunger only for a world of truth 'Cause all that you have is your soul
~ Tracy Chapman
What are you not beating down doors to do? What are you not actively taking on but would if you could?
~ Unknown
Noble words, my friend; you can't drink them or wrap them around your feet or burn them in your firepit or give them to children crying in hunger......They will cry for a month, then they will eat his share of the food. And wouldn't he want it that way?
~ Tracy Hickman
When some people talk about money They speak as if it were a mysterious lover Who went out to buy milk and never Came back, and it makes me nostalgic For the years I lived on coffee and bread, Hungry all the time, walking to work on payday Like a woman journeying for water From a village without a well, then living One or two nights like everyone else On roast chicken and red wine.
~ Tracy K. Smith
Of course these gifts were reckless extravagances for a family that was never more than a couple of dollars and a few days away from hunger, but that's how poor people cope with being marooned in poverty while all around them flows the frothy stream of the consumer culture.
~ Trevanian
It was the perfect set. Theseus gave a great war cry and brought his sword arcing up toward Sheba's throat - but the monster of the labyrinth lives inside us all. She is the dark, devouring hunger that is never sated, the creeping shadow that ever plays the fiend to our seraphim, the secret rage hidden in our hearts; deny her, and we become her slaves; fight her, and we make her invincible. By now, you must know that no monster can ever be killed, not really - […]
~ Troy Denning
A mere two days without eating and you passed out. It must be tough not being able to photosynthesize.
~ Unknown
AAAAAACK UNSPECIFIED CATASTROPHE EVERYTHING IS TERR — ooh, I do need a snack right now,
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Instead of asking candidates to self-assess a given behavior or characteristic related to humility, hunger, or people smarts, ask them what others would say about them. For example, instead of asking someone if he considers himself to be a hard worker, ask him "How would your colleagues describe your work ethic?
~ Patrick Lencioni
Cada arma que se fabrica, cada buque de guerra que se lanza al mar, cada cohete que se dispara significa, en ultima instancia, un robo a aquellos que pasan hambre y no son alimentados
~ Unknown