Children Quote by Steely Dan

“I was 15 years old and singing “I Miss the Hungry Years.” And I was a little fat.”

— Sam Harris

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

— Maurice Sendak

“And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he…

— Ray Bradbury

“He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Hunger was a species, and he was the best of that kind.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“He was a precocious and delicate little boy, quivering with the malaise of being unloved. When we played, his child's heart would come into…

— Harold Brodkey

“He was also the god of (take a deep breath) commerce, languages, thievery, cheeseburgers, trickery, eloquent speaking, feasts, cheeseburgers, hospitality, guard dogs, birds of…

— Rick Riordan

“A hungry man thinks only about how he can feed his family today. He doesn't care that how he feeds them today destroys his…

— Steven Gould

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

— James Joyce

“I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little…

— Christopher Hitchens

“on the plane he had been confident. He'd talked to the vieja near the aisle, telling her how excited he was. It is always…

— Junot Díaz

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a…

— Mark Twain