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Quotes About Hunger

Hunger is the handmaid of genius
~ Mark Twain
That's the only dog I know who can smell someone just thinking about food.
~ Charles M. Schulz
We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet.
~ Ronald Reagan
I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.
~ Seth Rogen
If a homeless person has a funny sign, he hasn't been homeless for that long. A real homeless person is too hungry to be funny.
~ Chris Rock
I need the ting but not ting ting ting
~ Unknown
Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.
~ Carolina Maria de Jesus
One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp.
~ Jeff Bridges
I fully endorse the millennial goals to make (hunger) history, ... Those are big goals, but it's do-able.
~ George McGovern
To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
~ Woody Allen
Food is like sex: when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good.
~ Beth McCollister
I will not be impressed with technology until I can download food from the internet.
~ Unknown
The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.
~ Unknown
Insatiable avarice only needs a teaspoon of love.
~ Unknown
I pushed away my dessert, suddenly no longer hungry. Resentment had a way of filling up your stomach.
~ Unknown
One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture.
~ Marshall Sahlins
Tak jak powtarzaj?cy si? g?ód w Korei Pó?nocnej powinien by? klasycznym przyk?adem tego, do czego zdolna jest dyktatura, kiedy chodzi jej wy??cznie o utrzymanie si? przy w?adzy, tak g?ód w Nigrze w 2005 roku móg?by pokazywa?, do czego zdolny jest rynek, kiedy nic nie kr?puje jego dzia?a?.
~ Unknown
A certain kind of hunger. To know what happened and at least ask why. Because the tikkun can't start until everyone asks what happened — not just the Jews but everybody.
~ Unknown
I'll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal.
~ Unknown
The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them.
~ Martin Luther
For the statement of Isaiah (28:19) is true: "Trouble gives understanding"; likewise, hunger is the best condiment. For those who are afflicted have a better understanding of the Holy Scriptures; the smug and prosperous read them as if they were some poem written by Ovid.
~ Martin Luther
Her strength and spirit were both dripping away, leaving her empty inside. She could feel her filth and hunger, and her body was protesting violently about her long period of tension, and drug and alcohol abuse.
~ Martin Millar