Quotes About Hunger

Since the foods Americans consume are so calorie-rich, we have all been trying to diet by eating smaller portions of low-nutrient foods. We not only have to suffer hunger but also wind up with perverted cravings because we are nutrient-deficient to boot.

If you have a significant layer of fat around your waist, it means you have regularly consumed food in response to toxic hunger or have eaten recreationally. The body does not store large amounts of fat when fed a wholesome natural diet and given only the amount of food demanded by true hunger.

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - "voluntarily" sell - himself every day and hour to the "beast of property."

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem

Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.

'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

With nothing to look forward to but the next meal, the human animal attaches a preposterous importance to his feeding.

Are you hungry?" "A little," I paused, "and thirsty." "Miss Collins will get you some dinner. And a glass of milk." "Milk?" I said. I tried to raise my eyebrows but even that hurt. "Milk," the doctor repeated.

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

As a physician, David had private recognition, but he craved public approval. Mrs. Roosevelt had public recognition, but she craved intimacy. Each satisfied the other's hunger for acceptance. It was a fair exchange.

I felt his gaze, I heard his moan, And knew his hunger as my own.

Feast" I drank at every vine. The last was like the first. I came upon no wine So wonderful as thirst. I gnawed at every root. I ate of every plant. I came upon no fruit So wonderful as want. Feed the grape and bean To the vintner and monger: I will lie down lean With my thirst and my hunger.

GENNARO Ma vedite che s' 'a da fa' pe' magna.»

Siempre se piensa mejor con el estómago lleno, dicen los que tienen estómago.

A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

The river, the canyon, the desert world was always changing, from moment to moment, from miracle to miracle, within the firm reality of mother earth. River, rock, sun, blood, hunger, wings, joy—this is the real, Smith would have said, if he'd wanted to. If he felt like it. All the rest is androgynous theosophy.

the best of all sauces is hunger

Simply breathing, in a place like this, arouses the appetite.

There's nobody doesn't want something.

In my day," I replied, "it was considered that the proper functions of government, strictly speaking, were limited to keeping the peace and defending the people against the public enemy, that is, to the military and police powers." "And, in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England, Germany, or hunger, cold, and nakedness?