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Quotes About Hunger

When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.
~ Mother Teresa
The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.
~ Socrates
Hunger never saw bad bread.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.
~ Joyce Kilmer
In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.
~ Kate Moss
Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.
~ Ivan Turgenev
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
~ Jan Karon
Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?
~ William Shakespeare
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
~ John Dryden
I almost die for food, and let me have it!
~ William Shakespeare
Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.
~ George Crabbe
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.
~ Henry George Bohn
Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.
~ Marvin Harris
The appetite grows with eating.
~ Francois Rabelais
Hunger is never delicate.
~ Samuel Johnson
The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.
~ Donny Osmond
The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.
~ Laura Huxley
In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.
~ Mark Kurlansky
By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.
~ Unknown
What sort of government is it that permits so many children to go to school hungry, without even a morsel of food in their stomachs? It cannot be! It must not be!
~ Sadao Araki
Appetite, a universal wolf.
~ William Shakespeare