Hunger Quotes - Page 32

• Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.

  Mark Winne

  Jobs, Banking, Poverty

  "Outlook: The Futility of Food Banks". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2007.

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• Everybody's got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear. Everybody hides some scar - Precious pain. Empty and cold but it keeps me alive. I gave it my soul so that I could survive - keeping me safe in these chains.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Pain, Soul, Matter

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• Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either." Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute. Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be a gasser.

  Louis Armstrong

  Baby, War, Mean

  Spoken intro to "What a Wonderful World", 1970.

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• Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.

  Frederick Buechner

  Purpose, Calling, World

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• Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Friendly, Cold

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

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• The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Reading, Letters, Biographies

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1985). “Gossip”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Nature, Taken, Men

  Mary Hunter Austin (2006). “Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing”, Heyday Books

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• Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Intimacy

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• Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Politics, Folly, Exposed

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• A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Men, Poverty, Cry

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• It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

  Seneca the Younger

  Vanity, Luxury, Doe

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• He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Dying, Taught, Feds

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• There's nothing that builds up a toil-weary soul
  Like a day on a stream,
  Back on the banks of the old fishing hole
  Where a fellow can dream.
  There's nothing so good for a man as to flee
  From the city and lie
  Full length in the shade of a whispering tree
  And gaze at the sky.
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  It is good for the world that men hunger to go
  To the banks of a stream,
  And weary of sham and of pomp and of show
  They have somewhere to dream.
  For this life would be dreary and sordid and base
  Did they not now and then
  Seek refreshment and calm in God's wide, open space
  And come back to be men.

  Edgar Guest

  Dream, Lying, Men

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• There was still gold and silver in the mountains,
  And hunger was a more immediate sorrow

  W. H. Auden

  Sorrow, Gold, Mountain

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• poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished

  W. S. Gilbert

  Poverty, Obsolete

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.1121, Oxford University Press

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• Nature satisfies my thirst; it feeds my hunger; it finds me clothing; it affords me shelter; it wraps me around when I sleep with beneficent and watchful care; and it takes me at last to its great bosom, where my ashes mingle with their kindred dust.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Nature, Sleep, Dust

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• Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster;
  There's hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so!
  As on we tramped exultantly, and no man was our master,
  And no man guessed what dreams were ours, as, swinging heel and toe,
  We tramped the road to Anywhere, the magic road to Anywhere,
  The tragic road to Anywhere, such dear, dim years ago.

  Robert W. Service

  Dream, Men, Years

  Robert W. Service (2012). “Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.50, Dundurn

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• These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.

  Han Suyin

  Art, Loss, Hands

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• So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.

  William H. Gass

  Sleep, Issues, Wish

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• Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and ... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish the spirit as well as the body.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Doe, Body, Spirit

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• For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Degradation, Charity, Hungry

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.270, Everyman's Library

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• Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Mother, Impatience

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• The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.

  P. W. Botha

  World, Want, Red

  "Dictionary of South African Quotations" by Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, (p. 90), 1994.

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• Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

  I. L. Peretz

  Mother, Baby, Prayer

  "Prince of the Ghetto". Book by Maurice Samuel (p. 162), 1948.

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• The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace

  Haile Selassie

  People, Greed, Royal Palaces

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