Hunger Quotes · Page 31

“We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food.”

— Kate Wicker

“When you see a child starving and you think government failed. But I think God failed , could not even fill the…

— John Art

Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

“Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving.”

— Bryant McGill

I went to a cleansing retreat in the desert where I didn't eat for eight days and experienced hunger-driven hallucinations.

— Cobie Smulders

There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.

— Pablo Neruda

I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.

— Parker Posey

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging.…

— Stephen King

As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind.…

— Jules Verne

I stared into Jared's eyes, and the strangest thing happened. All the melting and melding I had just been through was shoved…

— Stephenie Meyer

I've questioned myself, and wondered why I don't like to sleep a lot. I came up with a conclusion that I'm not…

— Reilly Jackson

For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our…

— George McGovern

In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle,…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer…

— Matthew Barney

“Every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased.”

— Jack London

“My father believes hunger is in the mind. I know differently. I know that hunger is in the mind and the body…

— Roxane Gay

When you're just focused on nutrition and hunger, that's a harder, harder lift in isolation.

— Jeff Fortenberry

It's amazing how many people are being fed because of this crazy little thing we started. We're feeding millions and it is…

— John van Hengel

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out…

— Irving Penn

“Don't hunger for what you can't have, she admonished herself. Take pleasure in what you can. Such thoughts had got her through…

— Jennifer Ashley

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

— Henry David Thoreau

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good…

— Trent Reznor

If you have a good squad, and the hunger is there to win something, you can do it.

— Toby Alderweireld

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an…

— Griffin Dunne

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my…

— Lenny Kravitz

The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.

— James Burnham

I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to…

— Landon Donovan

No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

— Mike Krzyzewski

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

Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.

— Criss Jami

A children may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows of hunger

— Anonymous

Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire…

— Alexander Schmemann

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

I always have the hunger to score, to be on the pitch and finish the team's moves.

— Edinson Cavani