quotations about hunger
Despite the overt powerlessness of the hungry, hunger itself is a profound and omnipresent threat. And so hunger must be domesticated. For the status quo--political, social, and personal--to remain, hunger must be tamed.
DAVID L. L. SHIELDS
"Race and Poverty in the Psychology of Prejudice", The Color of Hunger
A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger.
GERVASE MARKHAM
Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen
Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Year of the Flood
Hunger is the best sauce.
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Year of the Flood
If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.
BUZZ ALDRIN
attributed, Rise Against Hunger
Hunger allows no choice.
W. H. AUDEN
"September 1, Selected Poems
I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
ANN VOSKAMP
One Thousand Gifts
We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to sh*t. You think anyone in Rwanda's got a f***ing lactose intolerance?!
CHRIS ROCK
stand-up routine
You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. This is how prayer works.
POPE FRANCIS
attributed, Rise Against Hunger
Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.
ROBERT JORDAN
The Eye of the World
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT & JOHN FLETCHER
The Honest Man's Fortune
Satisfaction only temporarily relieves hunger. Find the balance, and plant your feet.
JACKIE MORSE KESSLER
Hunger
What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.
ROBERT LACEY & DANNY DANZIGER
The Year 1000
Our body is a circle of messages: communication, feedback, updates. Hunger and satiety are the most basic of these. Every day, we learn more about how this system works. We know what hormones run through the blood screaming, "Eat!" We know which ones follow murmuring, "Enough." We know that it is relatively easy to repress the signal for enough. A gene malfunctions, and a three-year-old girl weighs a hundred pounds: her body does not tell her when to stop eating. That signal is complexly influenced by genetics, chemistry, and culture. For many of us, it has become blurred. Our body doesn't give us the news or doesn't give it with enough emphasis.
SHARMAN APT RUSSELL
Hunger: An Unnatural History
Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.
VERA NAZARIAN
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren't satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
ANN VOSKAMP
One Thousand Gifts
Hunger makes a fool of a man.
H. G. WELLS
"The Diamond Maker"
Whatever satisfies hunger is good food.
CHINESE PROVERB
Hunger eats through stone walls.
DUTCH PROVERB
I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.
NEIL GAIMAN
The Ocean at the End of the Lane