Hunger Quotes

We are weak, please let us in. We're week, please let us in." After about a week tha song is gonna change to, "We're hungry, we need some food." After two, three weeks it's like "Give me some of tha food! I'm breakin down tha door." After a year it's like, "I'm pickin' the lock, comin' through the door blastin." It's like, "I'm hungry.

Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

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.

It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded;and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.

Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.

I almost die for food, and let me have it!

When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

My hunger serves me instead of a clock.

He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

Love comes with hunger.

People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.

Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

Them belly full, but we hungry;A hungry mob is a angry mob.

Hunger is good discipline.

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

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was a Dream that filled me up when I was hungry. Now it's my Dream to see that no child in this world ever goes hungry, certainly not here in America, the most bountiful country in the world. We can do better...we must!

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

Hunger never saw bad bread.

We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied. We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.

The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is giving us today: everyone concerned for the hungry, the naked, the poor, for those who have vanished in police custody, for the tortured, for prisoners, for all flesh that suffers, has God close at hand. We have the ability, we have the means, and we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth. We need only the will.