Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table. — Honore de Balzac
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. — Mother Teresa
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. — Mother Theresa
You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears — Greek Proverbs
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. — Frederick Buechner
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. — Les Brown
Fruitful is the entire life of those, who feel hunger for the Name of the Lord in their minds. — Guru Gobind Singh
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. — Nelson Mandela
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. — Mother Teresa
The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety. — Suzanne Collins
He who is shy dies from hunger. — Albanian Proverbs
I want to feed millions of people on a monthly basis, tens of millions one day. — MrBeast
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite. — Eugene H. Peterson
Hunger Image Quotes
Only a hungry man can understand the pain of hunger.
Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion — Burt Lancaster
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. — William Barrett
There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
Child Hunger Quotes
Kids have to be tough to survive on the streets of Kathmandu, where older gang members often beat and rob them. They face cold winters, hunger, homelessness, and unsympathetic police. But under each hardened shell there is still a child. — Craig Kielburger
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
Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty. — Ann Veneman
The day each family keeps aside food to feed one hungry person or animal or bird every day, nobody will go hungry in this world. There is enough food to feed every hungry stomach. Mankind just doesn't have the heart for it.
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. — Victor Hugo
Child hunger and child obesity are really just two sides of the same coin. Both rob our children of the energy, the strength and the stamina they need to succeed in school and in life. And that, in turn, robs our country of so much of their promise. — Michelle Obama
Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing - but it works miracles. — Drew Barrymore
Only a hungry man can understand the pain of hunger.
Every child is a deliberate, passionate creation of God. If you doubt that, just look into their eyes. You will find a gentle little spirit who hungers for life - and for your love. — Gary Holland
Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success. — Marian Wright Edelman
Many times, a child's struggle against hunger begins before he or she is born because the mother is undernourished. Making sure prenatal care and proper nutrition are available for expectant mothers in need is a critical part of ending childhood hunger. — Hector Elizondo
A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned. — Susette La Flesche
World Hunger Quotes
To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God. — Smith Wigglesworth
Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus. — Billy Graham
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. — Mother Teresa
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.
The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world. — Federico Garcia Lorca
Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet. — Fidel Castro
The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen. — Federico Garcia Lorca
If you have waited until you are as hungry as a wolf, you will most likely eat like one.
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. — George C. Marshall
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war. — Fidel Castro
35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war. — Jeff Bridges
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
Hunger For Love Quotes
Love is not sexual intercourse. Love is not vital attraction and interchange. Love is not the heart’s hunger for affection. Love is a mighty vibration coming straight from the One. And only the very pure and very strong are capable of receiving and manifesting it. — Mirra Alfassa
The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see. — Edward Abbey
I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ ...; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of unending love. — Ignatius of Antioch
My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here. — Suzanne Collins
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. — George Saunders
Love me or hate me, it's one or the other. Always has been. Hate my game, my swagger. Hate my fadeaway, my hunger. Hate that I'm a veteran. A champion. Hate that. Hate it with all your heart. And hate that I'm loved, for the exact same reasons. — Kobe Bryant
Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you. — Dale Carnegie
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
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. — Mother Teresa
Wherever you go - in every country, or in every continent, people yearn and hunger for only one thing, to love and be loved. Love transcends international boundaries and heals the wounds of hatred, racial, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance. It is the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. — Michael Jackson
Hunger For God Quotes
The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people. — Smith Wigglesworth
The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small. — John Piper
God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord. — N. T. Wright
Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy! — Sam Storms
When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed. — Mother Teresa
A hunger for beauty is at its heart a hunger for God. — Michael Card
God releases more of His power and presence according to the measure of our hunger for Him. — Mike Bickle
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. — Mother Teresa
Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God.… Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ. — Seraphim Rose
Hunger And Thirst Quotes
The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Hungry is a word that I've been analyzing here of late. It's not hunger that drives me, it's not hunger that needs to drive our football team. Hunger and thirst are things that can be quenched. We have to be a driven group, we have to seek greatness. — Mike Tomlin
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. — Giuseppe Garibaldi
There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle. — Pablo Neruda
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
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 church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table. — Henri Nouwen
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. — Ingrid Newkirk
I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant. — Sai Baba
Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me — Giuseppe Garibaldi
Hunger And Poverty Quotes
War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It’s going to take the redesign of our culture and values. — Jacque Fresco
The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger. — Fidel Castro
This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees. — Nelson Mandela
We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry. — Jimmy Carter
Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper. — George McGovern
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable. — Hubert H. Humphrey
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace. — Norman Borlaug
Free market capitalism and trade is the only way to end hunger and poverty across our planet, the empirical evidence is unquestionable. — Javier Milei
...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking...Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty. — Antonio Guterres
Hunger Game Quotes
Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor. — Suzanne Collins
I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever. — Suzanne Collins
To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed. — Suzanne Collins
It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. — Suzanne Collins
My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me. — Suzanne Collins
I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of The Hunger Games. — Isabelle Fuhrman
I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can't own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I. — Suzanne Collins
I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun. — Suzanne Collins
Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. — Suzanne Collins
Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it. — Suzanne Collins
Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people. — Suzanne Collins
Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen. — Suzanne Collins
You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug. — Suzanne Collins
You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real. — Suzanne Collins
I don't want to lose the boy with the bread. — Suzanne Collins
I'm more than just a piece in their Games. — Suzanne Collins
Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love. — Suzanne Collins
Ending Hunger Quotes
If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger. — Buzz Aldrin
Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice. — Jacques Diouf
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
The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation. — John F. Kennedy
What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to constantly re-evaluate how effectively our actions lead to our goal - that of ending world hunger. — Harry Chapin
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder. — Aristophanes
A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food. — Pearl S. Buck
At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back. — Darren Aronofsky
When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread. — Desmond Tutu
Hunger For Food Quotes
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
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
America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders. — Pierce Brosnan
There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort. — Norman Borlaug
Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging. — Orson Scott Card
Hunger Awareness Quotes
When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger. — Giovannino Guareschi
Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger. — Adora Svitak
I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one. — Mother Teresa
For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating. — Pablo Neruda
One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp. — Jeff Bridges
Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body. — Laura Joh Rowland
Aren't we most aware of our animal natures when love or hunger or hatred burns through reason and encourages us to do exactly what we desire to do, with frequently tragic results? — Delia Sherman
I'm pretty busy in my life and I'm very aware of what it takes to direct a movie. It takes a lot out of you; it takes a lot out of the rest of your life, from other people in your life. I don't lie around hungering for that consumption very often. — Edward Norton
Growing numbers of corporate executives are aware of the inextricable link between the well being of our families and the well-being of our nation. Nowhere is this link manifest so strongly as with the problem of hunger. — Arnold Hiatt
My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over. — Dionne Warwick
Hungry Man Quotes
The man who has eaten enough will never believe a hungry one. — Albanian Proverbs
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God. — Leonard Ravenhill
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations! — Allen Ginsberg
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
Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one. — Anton Chekhov
The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean. — Sakya Pandita
Only God can fully satisfy the hungry heart of man. — Hugh Black
Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life. — Marcus Garvey
[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food. — Fannie Lou Hamer
Hunger In America Quotes
In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America. — Naomi Wolf
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
Many people think that hunger is unavoidable in any society, even a society that is blessed with great abundance. That is not true. The European community does not have widespread hunger. America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders. — Pierce Brosnan
The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children. — Sandra Lee
We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of our newspapers or is featured on news programs because of its lack of sensationalism, the problem exists in massive proportions and must be defeated. — Bruce Davison
Recent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn (“cognitive impairment” ). Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernourishment — the kind most common among poor people in America — can do it. — Carl Sagan
It's appalling that there should be hunger anywhere, but particularly in a country like America, where there is also such great wealth. — Elizabeth Hurley
Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit — qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It's hard to believe that, in the 1970's, America was virtually hunger-free. During the past two decades, we have allowed hunger to attack our most precious resource, our children. We must reinstate and strengthen programs to eliminate this blight on our society. — Kurtwood Smith
America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will. — Christie Brinkley
You grow old when you lose interest in life, when you cease to dream, to hunger after new truths, and to search for new worlds to conquer. When your mind is open to new ideas, new interests, and when you raise the curtain and let in the sunshine and inspiration of new truths of life and the universe, you will be young and vital. — Joseph Murphy
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger. — Xi Jinping
The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses. — Pablo Neruda
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies. — Mencius
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities. — Amartya Sen
Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite. — Auguste Escoffier
Everything passes away-suffering,pain, blood, hunger,pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why? — Mikhail Bulgakov
Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man. — Lady Bird Johnson
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way. — Les Brown
Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of - and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural system.... The heart must have something to cling to. — Thomas Chalmers
The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share. — Dalai Lama
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits. Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire. — John L. Bates
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat. — Jorge Luis Borges
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. — Hélder Câmara
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