Starving Quotes

• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiring, Thankful

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Leadership, World, Originals

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• I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

  Coretta Scott King

  Mother, Children, School

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• It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

  Jim Carrey

  Dream, Wisdom, Giving Up

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• I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Insanity, Mind, Naked

  "Howl" l. 1 (1956)

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• Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

  Yoko Ono

  Bed Of Roses, Widows, Bears

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

  Thomas Friedman

  Education, Daughter, Mother

  "Why the World Is Flat". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

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• It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Believe, Food

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• It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

  Judith Light

  People, Political, World

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• I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

  Pete Domenici

  Democracy, Hungry, Said

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• I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Money, Inspirational Life, Men

  "Rain Still Follows Him: The President's Vermont Trip Marked by Storms". Speech in Rutland, Vermont, reported in The New York Times, August 29, 1891 issue p. 5,

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• I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Party, People, House

  "The Eat, Pray, Love author and GQ alum talks about a new cookbook". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 24, 2012.

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• Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Children, Intelligent, Intelligence

  Andrea Dworkin (1983). “Right Wing Women”, Perigee Trade

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• In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Christmas, People, Racist

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• You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

  John Shelby Spong

  People, Dieting, World

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• I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Army, Aggravation

  Remark to his son, G. W. Custis Lee, in March 1865. South Atlantic Quarterly, July 1927.

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• But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

  Don Van Vliet

  Beautiful, People, Church

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• Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

  O. Henry

  Art, Food, Family Love

  O. Henry (2015). “O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature”, p.218, 谷月社

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• I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.

  Dick Gregory

  Running, Airports, Romance

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• I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

  Ann Druyan

  Children, Night, Want

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• People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Philosophy, People

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 417, 2006.

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• My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.

  Tracey Gold

  Walking Dead, Zombie, Body

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• Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

  Jackson Browne

  Mean, Musician, Kind

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• I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.

  Sylvia Pankhurst

  Fighting, People, Like You

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• The Supreme Court of the United States has validated the Nazi method of execution in concentration camps, starving them to death.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Execution, United States, Nazi

  "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney, p. 329, 2004.

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