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Quotes About Hunger

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.
~ Emmanuel Levinas
There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.
~ Anna Quindlen
A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!
~ Lewis Carroll
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
~ George Eliot
I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now.
~ Joe Teti
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
~ Pearl Bailey
When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.
~ Desmond Tutu
When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.
~ Paul Prudhomme
Hunger is good discipline.
~ Ernest Hemingway
whoever gives the common people food to eat is a good person whoever lets the common people starve is a bad person.
~ Hualing Nieh Engle
I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.
~ Mark Winne
To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!
~ Israelmore Ayivor
You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.
~ Fiorello H. La Guardia
Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.
~ Ellen Wilkinson
Global warming isn't real because I was cold today! Also great news: world hunger is over because I just ate.
~ Stephen Colbert
Success is mostly driven by how badly you want something and how well you partner with other great people. It has to do with how hungry you are.
~ Kat Cole
A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.
~ Studs Terkel
Our great country is rich and abundant in so many ways. It is totally unacceptable to me that we have children and families going hungry!
~ Diane Ladd
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
~ John Steinbeck
You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.
~ Harlan Coben
This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.
~ Josette Sheeran
Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.
~ Levy Mwanawasa
You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland