Quotes About Hunger

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

The soul is often hungrier than the body, and no shops can sell it food.

That sense of power was all she craved.

World ill-health is like world hunger," said Lady Helena. "We could end both tomorrow if we wanted to.

Can you understand what the rats are saying?" "No. But I can kill them." "Why?" "Because they are never satisfied. They are like bad politicians and imperialists and rich people." "How?" "They eat up property. They eat up everything in sight. And one day when they are very hungry they will eat us up.

The only power poor people have is their hunger.

It was a night replaying its corrosive recurrence on the road of our lives, on the road which was hungry for great transformations.

I was born not just because I had conceived a notion to stay, but because in between my coming and going the great cycles of time had finally tightened around my neck. I prayed for laughter, a life without hunger. I was answered with paradoxes. It remains an enigma how it came to be that I was born smiling.

The only power that black people have is their hunger.

No--no other man is cursed With such doubleness of eye, They can hunger, they can thirst, But they know for what and why.

ese señor Godoy es un alma de cántaro, y que no ha estudiado latín ni teología, pues todo su saber se reduce a tocar la guitarra y a conocer los veintidós modos de bailar la gavota. Parece que por su linda cara le han hecho, primer ministro. Así andan las cosas de España; luego, hambre y más hambre… todo tan caro… la fiebre amarilla asolando a Andalucía…

I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.

At the working man's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

What matters is hunger. Appetite. In this way I have become what I behold.

If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.

Always have to think like a guy with no food in his refrigerator.

To say to a country that it shouldn't export its gas is like saying, 'Look, the only way we can defeat hunger is to put a padlock on the refrigerator.'

The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.

I spend a lot of time apologizing for the things I say when I am hungry. That's why breakfast, for me, is non-negotiable. It's an insurance policy against saying things I'll regret before my blood-sugar levels have stabilized.

No clock is more regular than the belly.

I'm one who likes to eat regularly, so not being able to eat for eight hours makes me a little cranky.

Appetite as it relates to the human being, the person. How do you find appetite for what you do? How do you relate to appetite? How do you get appetite, not only for a meal but also to do the work you do?

Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.