Top 100 Food Hunger Quotes
#1. Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.
Lactantius
#2. The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.
John Piper
#3. But how glum he looks now." She threw some daisies at him. Then, after a pause, she added mockingly: "It's hunger, my dear. Good Lord, how dependent men are on food!
John Dos Passos
#4. He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. "This is wrong", he thought, "Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil." ...
He breathed in the too-sweet smell of rotting food, "I can stop this evil.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#5. I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food.
Brett Dennen
#6. It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.
Evo Morales
#7. Hunger limits you because you are constantly thinking about getting food, keeping the food if you do get your hands on some, and not knowing when you are going to eat next.
Saroo Brierley
#8. Hunger for God's Word like food. Thirst for it like water. Soak in it like a jacuzzi. Put it on like a garment. Weave it into your soul so that it becomes part of the fabric of your life. When you do, you won't just be trudging up the trail. You will be dancing in the footlights.
Stormie O'martian
#9. A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.
C.S. Lewis
#10. 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.
Helder Camara
#11. Every child should be given the right to grow up and become a productive citizen. This will not happen unless, at the very least, basic food needs are met. Ending childhood hunger should be a national priority.
Pamela Sue Martin
#12. Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger
not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#13. 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
#14. Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.
Lucian
#15. No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on a daily basis? Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food. Take that away and I'm not really sure who I am, what my identity is. The idea scares me some.
Suzanne Collins
#17. The three most powerful seasonings are hunger, variety, and gratitude.
Neel Burton
#18. The food of the minority is the hunger of the majority.
Eduardo Galeano
#19. With the help of folks like you and me, Heifer International tackles the problem of hunger one family at a time with gifts of renewable resources - farm animals that are ongoing sources of food and income.
Susan Sarandon
#20. It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!
Sam Kinison
#21. Even if you can't be totally mindful at every meal, if you can say a blessing, silently if necessary, or offer up a prayer for someone, something beyond yourself and your food, the prayer helps to transform eating into something that affects not only our hunger at that moment but the greater world.
Mary DeTurris Poust
#22. Fine. You stay here. I shall return when I've found food. But when you all faint from hunger later don't think you can just feed on me.
C.J. Daugherty
#23. Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.
Jules Verne
#24. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.
Criss Jami
#27. Mercy Corps' partnership with The Hunger Site translates into lifesaving assistance for people in tremendous need around the world. When you visit, click, and shop at this unique site, you're making the future a little brighter for families who need food in the world's poorest places.
Dan O'Neill
#28. When the average American says, "I'm starving," it is a prelude to a midnight raid on a well-stocked refrigerator or a sudden trip to the nearest fast food restaurant.
Carolyn Custis James
#29. Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
John Denver
#30. I felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature: they were a mixture of pain and pleasure, such as I had never before experienced, either from hunger or cold, warmth or food; and I withdrew from the window, unable to bear these emotions.
Mary Shelley
#31. When we neglect our Bible study we often feel guilty. When you skip a meal do you feel guilty? No, you feel hungry. The Bible is food for our soul. When we fail to read it we should not feel guilty, we should feel hungry. Guilt is fueled by obligation hunger is fueled by desire.
Tyler Edwards
#32. Choose between dying of hunger or a bullet to the head. This means you either suffer without food or get killed
Marcela Valdes
#33. If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.
Stephen Colbert
#34. What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.
Bertrand Russell
#36. 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
#37. Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.
Paul Brunton
#39. To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.
Saadi
#40. Like most humans, I am hungry ... 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. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it ...
Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
#41. This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste and disposal of food, which is even more despicable when all over the world, unfortunately, many individuals and families are suffering from hunger and malnutrition.
Pope Francis
#42. Appetite is governed by our thoughts, but hunger is governed by the body.
Clement G. Martin
#43. 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
#44. I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion. In the camp, there was no difference between man and beast, except maybe that a very hungry human was capable of stealing food from its little ones while an animal, perhaps, was not.
Kang Chol-Hwan
#45. A leather bag filled with food and a flask of hot tea.
Suzanne Collins
#46. As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.
Ellen Gustafson
#47. The best seasoning for food in hunger; for drink, thirst.
Socrates
#48. No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry ... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.
Frances Moore Lappe
#49. There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.
M.F.K. Fisher
#50. Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.
Matthew Fox
#51. The absence of food doesn't make a man forsake hunger-it only makes him hungrier .
Amitav Ghosh
#53. We are born into this world with a life-long hunger for food ...
We are born into this world with a life-long hunger for love ...
Jose N. Harris
#54. More people die from the hunger of love than from the lack of food.
Debasish Mridha
#55. A balanced dieT to make you die with a tea, consists of holding two bags of cookies on each hand and a voracious hunger to consume.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#56. If you are prone to eating too much and in a chaotic way, bone broth is your cure. It will literally feed your body with many nutrients while making you feel less hunger when you shouldn't crave food.
Greg Cleland
#57. Desire
I desire you
more than food
and drink
My body
my senses
my mind
hunger for your taste
I can sense your presence
in my heart
although you belong
to all the world
I wait
with silent passion
for one gesture
one glance
from you
Rumi
#58. Shukhov ate his supper without bread
a double portion and bread on top of it would be too rich. So he'd save the bread. You get no thanks from your belly
it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#59. The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.
Donny Osmond
#60. If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.
Michael Grant
#61. We cannot fight against the poverty and hunger in the world; when our stomachs are full of delicious food; the fighters must feel the poverty not imagine it.
M.F. Moonzajer
#62. While farmers contribute to our survival, let us also do our part by showing them respect in form of not wasting food.
Mohith Agadi
#63. Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#64. Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.
Mario Batali
#65. In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.
Munia Khan
#66. You know, when people who were once religious no longer believe in God, they never really change; they just go on, hunting for the ecstatic food, trying to satisfy that hunger.
Andrew Holleran
#67. I could smell the food fill up my hunger before the order was even
placed.
Phindiwe Nkosi
#68. Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.
Criss Jami
#69. When you read a book [The Hunger Games], you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination. In the book, it's great when she can push a button and food comes up, as per your order.
Nina Jacobson
#70. Most of the seven billion people in this world suffer from malnutrition. Half do not have enough to eat and the rest of us eat too much.
Earle Gray
#71. You know marriage is like hunger. You yearn for it till you don't get the food. Once the stomach is full, you don't want more on your plate. But then hunger can subside only temporarily. It keeps coming back and that's how exactly a happy married life keeps going on, with all ups and downs.
Shikha Kaul
#72. Most Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa or South America. But it is a tragic reality that our country has millions of children who are suffering from lack of food. We must all work together to save our country from this problem.
Beverly Johnson
#73. In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.
Mark Kurlansky
#74. Food insecurity and hunger are serious threats to children's health, growth, and development. The idea of not being able to put plentiful, nutritious food on the table for my girls is a horrifying thought.
Samantha Harris
#75. Complaining from lack of food doesn't always affect my emotions. complaining from lack of knowledge, passion, creative ideas and happiness always does.
Sameh Elsayed
#76. For nothing keeps a poet
In his high singing mood
Like unappeasable hunger
For unattainable food.
Joyce Kilmer
#77. As the dry thirst for water, the starving hunger for food and lungs demand air to breathe, the one thing a soul truly craves is freedom.
Adrian G. Hilder
#78. Certainty is a convenient and easy way out of our discomfort. It is the mind's equivalent of fast food - to satisfy our hunger for answers with minimal effort.
Rod Judkins
#79. Young ladies ... who fall in love, never consider whether there is sufficient "to make the pot boil" - probably because young ladies in love lose their appetites, and, not feeling inclined to eat at that time, they imagine that love will always supply the want of food.
Frederick Marryat
#80. Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
Kahlil Gibran
#81. Too often they tell me to answer my doubts with prayer, which seems very much like addressing one's hunger by thinking of food.
Dave Eggers
#82. They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.
Stephen King
#83. It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.
K.A. Applegate
#84. 1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.
Mark Bittman
#85. We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to shit. You think anyone in Rwanda's got a fucking lactose intolerance?!
Chris Rock
#86. Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.
Tom Colicchio
#87. There are no secrets, there is no mystery. We make that all up. In fact, it's all right there in front of us. You have to have enough food to get through winter and spring. That's what it all comes down to. You have to live in a way that will gather enough food each fall to get through winter.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#88. Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
Jane Goodall
#89. To know that children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such as ours. I hope that all our leaders, in both the public and private sectors, will work tirelessly to eradicate hunger. We all have a responsibility to bring back life to our most precious natural resource.
Joan Lunden
#90. Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
Mario Batali
#91. May we not die premature deaths; instead, may our troubles be limited to pangs of hunger. A man with life will find food to put in the stomach. If death doesn't kill the penis, it soon eats bearded meat.
Okey Ndibe
#92. There's the issue of hunger, and there's an issue of if you're going to cut out food programs. We should be focusing on healthy food. Right now, fruits and vegetables are very expensive. So what can we do on the policy side to bring the cost of fruits and vegetables down?
Tom Colicchio
#93. The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food - it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.
George Eliot
#95. Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world warms
Nicholas Stern
#96. I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
Jeff Bridges
#97. There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.
Ed Asner
#98. Every time I look at my wallet; I don't care how much money is there, I just want to know, does it make for this time food?
M.F. Moonzajer
#99. To eat or not to eat, that is the question: whether 'tis Nobler in the stomach to suffer the Slings and Arrows of outrageous Hunger (while keeping mouthparts in pristine kissing condition) or to take Spoon against Slice of cake, and
"Yes, please," my stomach pipes up.
Laini Taylor
#100. Her knees trembled. She told herself the weakness was from hunger - for food, not Ramsay's body. "Is
Vivienne Savage
