Hunger Quotes

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift

Rich, Poor, Proud

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
Theodor Adorno

Words, Poor, Language

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
Homer

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
Leonard Cohen

Work, Hard, Place

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
Cat Stevens

Love, Music, She

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
Fidel Castro

Live, Million, Third

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.
Drew Barrymore

Person, Road, Create

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.
Jeff Bridges

Kids, Four, Faces

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
Klaus Kinski

Food, Dream, Drink

Hunger makes a thief of any man.
Pearl S. Buck

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
Edwin Louis Cole

God, Makes, Fast

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
Saint Basil

Rain, Away, Knows

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Today, Spiritual, Cannot

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.
Jeff Bridges

America, Place, Acting

One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field trip, will go and join hands around Congress and give the politicians report cards on how they're voting on hunger issues.
Jeff Bridges

Give, Around, Voting

I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
Jeff Bridges

Food, End, Political

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
Francois Rabelais

Strength, Gut, Reigns

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
A. N. Wilson

Cannot, Fact, Almost

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
Aristophanes

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Die, Start, Necessary

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
Gro Harlem Brundtland

Money, Important, Poverty

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.
Jonathan Sacks

Time, Live, Children

I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.
Shahrukh Khan

Won, Call, Hungry

Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.
John Podhoretz

Speak, Fact, National

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.
John Podhoretz

Life, Religion, Else

Being 5' 10, I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.
Summer Altice

Fire, Play, Short

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
Agnes Repplier

Give, Friends, Enough

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
William Law

Faith, Nature, Strong

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
Danica McKellar

Beauty, Thinking, Ways

The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.
Lenny Kravitz

Funny, Book, Games

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