Hunger Quotes
1310 quotes by 931 authors
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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
— Saint Augustine
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets…
— Diane Ackerman
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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how…
— George Matthew Adams
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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.…
— Drew Barrymore
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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
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Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
— Mario Batali
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter…
— Joseph Addison
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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
— Theodor Adorno
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films…
— Theodore Bikel
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One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.
— Jeff Bridges
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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…
— Jeff Bridges
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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…
— Jeff Bridges
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I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and…
— Jeff Bridges
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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
— Les Brown
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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…
— Les Brown
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An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
— Pearl S. Buck
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I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then…
— Nolan Bushnell
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A. S. Byatt
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The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
— Sholom Aleichem
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