130 Feeling Hungry Quotes

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Famous Feeling Hungry Quotes

One piece of food while hungry equals a big box of food while full. — Vietnamese Proverbs

A hungry stomach has no ears. — Proverbs

Hungry wailing standeth not aloof. — Aeschylus

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion - Burt Lancaster

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion — Burt Lancaster

A hungry man is not a free man. — Adlai Stevenson

Hunger is the handmaid of genius — Mark Twain

When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

I'm amazed to form part of this amazing universe and I'm proud of the hunger that keeps me awake. Because when man is full he falls asleep. — Facundo Cabral

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven't eaten for three hours, we think we're starving. You're not starving - human beings can go for 30 days without food. — Jocko Willink

You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears — Greek Proverbs

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life. — Bertrand Russell

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands. — Ivan Pavlov

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

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

When one is hungry, there is no bad bread. — Spanish Proverbs

Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy. — Niall Horan

Short Feeling Hungry Quotes

  • Don’t spurn cold rice; hunger helps you eat even food that has gone bad. — Vietnamese Proverbs
  • When you are hunger for God, He will fill you. — Jentezen Franklin
  • If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself. — Mark Batterson
  • I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it. — Dolly Parton
  • My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates. — Dante Alighieri
  • Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite. — Mignon McLaughlin
  • It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat. — Bashar al-Assad
  • I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge. — Dennis Rodman
  • The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. — Mother Teresa
  • The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. — Mother Theresa

Feeling Hungry Image Quotes

Feeling hungry quote Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Food Hungry Quotes

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs. — Dallas Willard

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings. — Cesar Chavez

Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts. — Jaggi Vasudev

Feeling hungry quote Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry. — Pope Francis

Little world, full of little people shouting for recognition, screaming for love, Rolling world, teeming with millions, carousel of the hungry, Is there food enough? Wheat and corn will not do. The fat are the hungriest of all, the skinny the most silent. — James Kavanaugh

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do. — Cesar Chavez

Feeling hungry quote How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.
How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will. — Emmanuel Levinas

You cannot tell a hungry child that you gave him food yesterday. — Zimbabwean Proverbs

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99 — Lord Byron

A cabin with plenty of food is better than a hungry castle. — Irish Proverbs

When You Are Hungry Quotes

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. — Jack London

Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night. — Ellen Potter

Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop. — Chris Darwin

Feeling hungry quote Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.

If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist. — Geneen Roth

How can you laugh when your mother's hungry? How can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong? — Jethro Tull

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you. — Ouida

Feeling hungry quote Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.
Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.

Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It's like when you're hungry, you know, it's worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn't do you any good, you know. — Yoko Ono

Imbibe three or four times as much water as you think you need and skip at least one, if not two meals, when you are travelling. You should arrive at your destination feeling slightly hungry and your digestive system reset. — Chris Hadfield

Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that female charms, the kind that inflame the senses, are no more than kitchen smells: they tease you when you're hungry and disgust you when you've had your fill. — M. Ageyev

Eat only when you are hungry. Drink only when you're thirsty. Sleep only when you're tired. Screw only when you're horny. — Al Neuharth

Am Hungry Quotes

I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am. — Akshay Kumar

Spaghetti... I can't eat spaghetti, there's too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1,000 of something is too many. I'll have 1,000 pieces of noodles. — Mitch Hedberg

If I'm not hungry and I'm busy, I am quite happy to skip a meal. It's informal intermittent fasting. I feel strongly that this is one of the strongest areas of longevity research. — David Sinclair

Feeling hungry quote There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you re
There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest. — Spike Lee

When I see the need for Divine teaching and how hungry people are to hear it, I am atremble to be off and running throughout the world, preaching the word of God. I have no rest, my soul finds no other relief, than to rush about and preach. — Anthony Mary Claret

Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist — St. Catherine of Siena

Feeling hungry quote Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

I am hungry at the most inappropriate times. — Calum Hood

I am hungry for titles. — Kylian Mbappe

Oregon is demure and lovely, and it ought to play a little hard to get. And I think you'll be just as sick as I am if you find it is nothing but a hungry hussy , throwing herself at every stinking smokestack that's offered. — Tom McCall

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction. — Michelle Obama

I'm So Hungry Quotes

Thirty ways to shape up for summer. Number one: eat less. Number two: exercise more. Number three: what was I talking about again? I'm so hungry. — Maria Bamford

I'm so hungry I could eat you! -Cloudpaw — Erin Hunter

I bought myself a parrot, but it did not say "I'm hungry", and so it died. — Mitch Hedberg

Feeling hungry quote Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.

I'm very hungry and there's still a lot to do. Rather than look at what I've conquered already and say "yeah, that was the greatest so far," right now I just stay hungry and keep moving forward. — Kai Greene

I've had so many critics over the past couple of months. I've had so many people who said I'm too old for this, I am burnt out. But, you know what, I am so hungry to make a career for myself. I was able to turn all this negativity into something positive. — Ashley Wagner

I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young. — Lil Wayne

Feeling hungry quote A King only bows down to his Queen.
A King only bows down to his Queen.

I'm sure there are people who just assume we can't have hungry people in America because so many people are obese, but once you start to understand that a major cause of obesity is inadequate nutrition, it really changes that conversation. — Lori Silverbush

I'm so hungry, comrade! It has been days since we ate those two raccoons!' 'I know comrade. I'm even beginning to wish we had some of your homemade quiche!' 'Oh comrade! Do you mean it?' 'Hey--Hey! None of that! If you ever tell anyone I said that, I'll deny it! — Jeff Smith

Mom’s not feeling well. So I’m making her a get well card.” “That’s thoughtful of you.” "See, on the front it says, ‘Get Well Soon’ … and on the inside it says,’Because my bed isn’t made, my clothes need to be put away and I’m hungry. Love Calvin.’ Want to sign it?” “Sure, I’m hungry too — Bill Watterson

On going vegetarian." I was sitting here eating my plate of chicken salad, and suddenly I looked down and saw all the meat on my plate and just wasn't hungry anymore. So i've decided I'm not going to eat meat." — Shiri Appleby

Hungry Stomach Quotes

The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back. — Sayings

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. — Horace

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. — Paul Samuelson

Feeling hungry quote It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through t
It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart.

A hungry stomach makes a short prayer. — American Indian Proverbs

You are asleep. Deep, deep asleep - and then the world caves in. The cat has leapt from the top window onto your stomach. He is saturated. He is hungry. He taps you into full wakefulness with a sodden paw "Could you open a can?" — Pam Brown

In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach. — Lewis Mumford

Feeling hungry quote A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.

Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep. — Rene Daumal

What sort of government is it that permits so many children to go to school hungry, without even a morsel of food in their stomachs? It cannot be! It must not be! — Sadao Araki

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food. — Irving Stone

Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine. — Frank A. Clark

Hunger For Food Quotes

In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry. — Sela Ward

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry. — Ed Asner

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. — Norman Borlaug

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use. — Max Stirner

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food — Joseph Butler

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food. — Pearl S. Buck

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. — M. F. K. Fisher

We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it. — Radhanath Swami

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More Feeling Hungry Quotes

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. — Mother Teresa

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use. — Mother Teresa

Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection? — Mother Teresa

We are hungry for tenderness, in a world where everything abounds we are poor of this feeling which is like a caress for our heart we need these small gestures that make us feel good Tenderness is a disinterested and generous love, that does not ask anything else to be understood and appreciated. — Alda Merini

When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think it takes a very insensitive, tough person not to feel they need to do something. — Ratan Tata

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it. — Madonna Ciccone

If you feel that Heavenly Father is not listening to your petitions, ask yourself if you are listening to the cries of the poor, the sick, the hungry, and the afflicted all around you. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone. — Mother Teresa

I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home. — Madonna Ciccone

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men. — William Morris

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing. — Elizabeth Lesser

When I wake up in the morning I want to feel hungry for life. Desire is what drives me. When I go to sleep, I feel I have experienced a small death, so that I can wake up in the morning renewed and reborn. — Jean-Louis Barrault

I recruit hungry kids who love the game and want to get better and feel they have more questions than answers — Bo Ryan

Knowing me is easy. You can still twist your hair and feel silly. Look up the word tacky and have a salad. But when we're together you pull bread apart with your fingers into bites sometimes so small I gotta remind you, Peach, it is okay to be hungry. — Buddy Wakefield

If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity. — Dale Carnegie

In fact, two slices of whole wheat bread increase blood sugar to a higher level than a candy bar does. And then, after about two hours, your blood sugar plunges and you get shaky, your brain feels foggy, you're hungry. — William Davis

In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold. — Nellie Bly

My working hours are not that conventional. I often get up about two in the morning and do a painting, and then I'll have a bath, and then I often feel very hungry around 4am, so I'll go into Soho and have a meal somewhere like Balans. That's what I love about living here - there's always life around me. — Stella Vine

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed by the TV, I felt empty and hungry. My heart hurt... I often felt hollow or as if I were some kind of wispy ghost, barely existing. — Judith Wright

I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really hungry to prove anything to anybody, really. But when I stand outside myself and observe what I think are my strengths and weaknesses going into directing, it's what you just said, an affliction to organize moments. — Edward Norton

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country ... not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change,” she said. “I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment. — Michel'le

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs. — Tom Waits

When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me. — George Stevens

I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not. — Geneen Roth

Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you. — Stanley Fish

In the old days talks would have made me angry. But now that I've come out, everyone knows the truth. That's like a protective shield against comments like that. Stupid remarks and jokes no longer hurt me, because I can stand by being gay. Nowadays I can even laugh at jokes about gays. Now I feel free, hungry and strong. — Orlando Cruz

Every time I caught a fish, I wondered how something so small could have such clear, pure strength. It kept reminding me of another sensation, from another realm. The fish on the line, I eventually realized, felt like the baby, kicking inside you. Or the shocking, life-hungry pull of the baby on the breast. Perhaps fishing is like quickening for men, a long and patient wait for a few electric moments when they feel connected to another life. — Marni Jackson

I was just in London - there is a 6 hour time difference. I'm still confused. When I go to dinner, I feel sexy. When I go to bed, I feel hungry. — Henny Youngman

It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends. — Yannick Noah

Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later. — Ray Liotta

I still feel I am that 14-year-old kid, hungry and trying to find a way through life. That's what I'm trying to develop, trying to be good at something through boxing. But I feel like that young kid who's trying and trying. — Anthony Joshua

You know when you're hungry and excited and you feel humble about it? I like that. In the past, when things were not clear, I think I wasn't ... I didn't have my feet on the ground as much, maybe, 10 years ago. So I just feel like this is a good place to be now, to feel that you want to tell stories from this place and that you're excited to tell stories from this place because you know what you love. I know what I love right now. — David O. Russell

People can't help the way they feel, only what they do about it. They can no longer not be attracted to someone other than their spouse than they can say they are not hungry or not thirsty or not frightened or embarrassed. It's when you act on that attraction when you know it would be bad for your marriage that is the problem. In a good marriage, the couple are each as committed to the marriage as they are to each other. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The live audience is a blind date. The camera is a hungry lover. One wants to be wined and dined and seduced and then decide where the evening will go. The other knows how it wants to be touched, wants it now and can damn well tell if you are lying about it. Both are fickle. Both feel good. Depends on your mood. — Bill Oberst Jr.

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise. — Jean-Paul Sartre

It takes around 30 minutes for your body to realize you're full, so if you're hungry when you sit down to eat, and you eat as quickly as most Americans do, you're just going to keep throwing down food before that feeling kicks in. — Mehmet Oz

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