Hunger Quotes

• Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

  

  Josette Sheeran
  • Child
  • Lose
  • Hunger

• There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages

  

  Louise Fresco
  • Hunger
  • Feed
  • Shortages

• God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Giving
  • Care

• It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Pain
  • Ignorance
  • Carelessness

• Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Mind
  • Food
  • Understand

• The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Children
  • Insecurity
  • Nutrition

• We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

  

  Anthony Marais
  • Knowledge
  • Born
  • Hunger

• Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.

  

  Cory Trepanier
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Excellence

• I saw a very old man, literally eating his own human waste out of hunger. I went to the nearby hotel and asked them what was available. They had idli, which I bought and gave to the old man. Believe me, I had never seen a person eating so fast, ever. As he ate the food, his eyes were filled with tears. Those were the tears of happiness.

  

  Narayanan Krishnan
  • Happiness
  • Tears
  • Hunger

• The Australian Gerald Murnane, a genius on the level of Beckett, is known in Australia and Sweden but almost nowhere else. And I loved Reality Hunger, David Shields' recent novel take on the art of the novel.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Genius

• Hunger is good discipline.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Discipline
  • Hunger

• Hunger is not debatable.

  

  Harry Hopkins
  • Hunger

• I am in the hunger business; it is what we do exclusively, 24/7, and I am sorry to tell you that business is booming.

  

  Josette Sheeran
  • Business
  • Hunger
  • Booming

• Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him.

  

  Alexander Schmemann
  • God
  • Desire
  • Hunger

• In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Poverty
  • Cold
  • Salvation

• Our hunger signal will remain active until we take in an adequate supply of nourishment.

  

  Brendan Brazier
  • Hunger
  • Active
  • Nourishment

• Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

  

  Anna Lappe
  • Democracy
  • Crisis
  • Hunger

• Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.

  

  Dan B. Allender
  • Healing
  • Hunger
  • Offer

• As humans, we have a hunger to discover something new, reach new meaning, understand better the universe and our place in it.

  

  Edward Frenkel
  • Universe
  • Humans
  • Discover

• How can you satisfy your hunger while your neighbor is spending the night hungry?

  

  Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
  • Hunger
  • Neighbor
  • Satisfy

• Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

  

  Carol Lee Flinders
  • Fire
  • Feminism
  • Draws

• Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full

  

  Wilfred Thesiger
  • Hunger
  • Heat
  • Tasted

• With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority.

  

  Josette Sheeran
  • Focus
  • Priority
  • Hunger

• Growing numbers of corporate executives are aware of the inextricable link between the well being of our families and the well-being of our nation. Nowhere is this link manifest so strongly as with the problem of hunger.

  

  Arnold Hiatt
  • Nation
  • Families
  • Hunger

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