Hunger Quotes - Page 26

• In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Stealing, Hungry, These Days

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• He that attends to his interior self,
  That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind
  That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks
  A social, not a dissipated life,
  Has business.

  William Cowper

  Business, Heart, Self

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.155

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• Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.

  Henry Fielding

  Fall, Ignorance, Vices

  Henry Fielding (1783). “The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.184

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• People are not hungry just for bread, they are hungry for love.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Bread, Hungry

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• A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to distress. Hunger is not among the postponable wants; and a day, even a few hours, in such a condition is often the crisis of a life of ruin.

  Thomas Paine

  Doors, Temptation, World

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• If we mammals don't get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we begin to starve. Living at biological red alert, it's not surprising how obsessed we are with food; I'm just amazed we don't pace and fret about it all the time.

  Diane Ackerman

  Fall, Two, Mammals

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.77, Vintage

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• When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed forth to rally under the banner they loved, with grand singleness of purpose and heroic devotion--leaving all behind them, to meet toil and danger, hunger, sickness, wounds, and death, for nothing but the sublime satisfaction of doing their duty to their country and to mankind.

  Carl Schurz

  Country, Singleness Of Purpose, Rights

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• Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

  Aeschylus

  Doctors, Intelligence, Excellent

  Aeschylus, (2014). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides”, p.96, A&C Black

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• Eating is never so simple as hunger.

  Erica Jong

  Simple, Eating

  Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.107, Open Road Media

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• A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.

  Betty Smith

  Children, Want, Never Forget

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• Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in our medium, roused to do our best, by every good writer, every fine achievement. Would we want one good writer or fine book less? The sense of writers being pitted against each other is bred primarily by the workings of the commercial marketplace, and by critics lauding one writer at the expense of another while ignoring the existence of nearly all.

  Tillie Olsen

  Book, Generosity, Achievement

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.174, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• 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

  Brain, Mind, Madness

  Jules Verne (2013). “Jules Verne Selected Works: 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Five Weeks in a Balloon, The Mysterious Island”, p.634, Lulu Press, Inc

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• life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of 'family.

  Betty Friedan

  Religious, Men, Self

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• Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Interesting, Feelings, Satisfaction

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2012). “Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches”, p.248, tredition

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• ... where there was hunger there would also be bread.

  Catherine Marshall

  Bread

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• A child is a child in any country, whatever the politics. Let's get down to basics. That's what a child forces you to do. Nothing else much matters, there is no complicated diplomacy, when a child is starving. It's simple. And we'd better do something about it. For our sakes, too. That is, if we want to continue to call ourselves human.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Country, Children, Simple

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• I will not rest until no child goes hungry. All is possible.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Hungry

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• Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Cooking, Beef

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.346, Canongate Books

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• Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

  Henry George Bohn

  Food, Cooking, Faults

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1893). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages”

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• If I were a supervillain, I would end capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia... but I guess that's a little too obvious and not villain-y enough. Because that's actually being a superhero. I would break down poverty with my machete; I would end world hunger.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Racism, Superhero, World

  "Kathleen Hanna on buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2015.

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• I kind of help solve world peace and world hunger. That's just kind of an average day off for me.

  Nat Wolff

  Average, Days Off, World

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.

  Tom Morello

  Years, Hunger And Poverty, Numbers

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• Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

  Miles Franklin

  Atheist, Heart, Atheism

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.81, The Floating Press

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• We have created a democracy that links us all, and with it come not only opportunities but obligations. There are no gates or walls high enough. There are no bank accounts large enough to buy you and your family and your friends protection from the fear and hunger of those left behind or to isolate you from the consequences of growing social inequities. We are all in this boat together. And the fact that there isn't a hole at your end of the boat doesn't mean you are safe.

  Arianna Huffington

  Wall, Mean, Opportunity

  Arianna Huffington (2004). “Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People”, Miramax Books

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• There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Curiosity, Unbearable, Obsession

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “Sight Unseen/The Confession”, p.53, Essential Library

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