Come Quote by Maverick Carter

In a lot of First Nations and different rural communities, kids go to school hungry.

— Carey Price

Children drop out of school because they're hungry. By providing a meal at school we have seen an increase in attendance.

— Topaz Page-Green

Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.

— Arne Duncan

It is unacceptable that so many students who are juggling school, work, and family life are also going hungry.

— Alex Padilla

But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance…

— Jared Polis

When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to…

— Irwin Redlener

Since children spend many of their waking hours at school, eating up to two meals a day there, we need to place a special…

— Joshua Rosenthal

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps…

— George McGovern

If children are hungry, they need to be fed. It's hard to learn if your stomach is growling. We need to take that on.…

— Arne Duncan

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

— John Charles Polanyi

School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day…

— Drew Barrymore

The most important thing about education is appetite.

— Winston Churchill