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Quotes About Hunger

In the forests man has always deteriorated; human evolution has made progress only in the open and in the higher latitudes. The cold and hunger of the open lands stimulate action, invention, and resourcefulness.
~ Unknown
Hunger, when there is something to cure it with, is easy to cure.
~ Unknown
She felt she had been created by the demands of others, by their insatiable appetite for something beyond ordinary life. They craved a world without death and they had spotted her, in their hunger, like wolves alert to any poor sheep that might stray from the fold and stand gazing ignorantly up at the stars.
~ Unknown
And it seemed to me that longing was everything, longing is all we are.
~ Unknown
Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied
~ Van Morrison
Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.
~ Vandana Shiva
Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.
~ Vera Nazarian
A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself.... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.
~ Vicki Baum
His stomach growled again. He couldn't remember ever being this hungry. A little brown spider scurried between his shoes. He snatched it up, shoved it in his mouth, chewed, swallowed. Wait. That's not right. Allen strongly suspected he needed to be rescued.
~ Unknown
The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
~ Victor Hugo
I had learned a long time ago that there was no point at all in setting out to meet dragons and in the like on an empty stomach.
~ Unknown
Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
~ Danica McKellar
People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
~ Lawrence Durrell, Justine
A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those balls and you are alone and it's your birthday.'
~ Thom Yorke
Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.
~ Julius Nyerere
Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.
~ Zoroaster
As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.
~ William Safire
Hungry people always win.
~ Alin Sav
Hungry bellies have no cars.
~ Francois Rabelais
Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful?God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful as any bird. They're as mysterious as any animal on earth. No one knows for sure how long they live or what impulses?except for hunger?they respond to. There are more than two hundred and fifty species of shark, and everyone is different from every other one.
~ Peter Benchley