Josette Sheeran Quotes

#1. Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.

Josette Sheeran

#2. Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on.

Josette Sheeran

#3. Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.

Thomas De Quincey

#4. The city is a plague ... and I am the penicillin.

Jerry J.C. Veit

#5. Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together.

Josette Sheeran

#6. She's the gal in the red blue jeans.

Gene Vincent

#7. A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ...

C.J. Heck

#8. Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

Josette Sheeran

#9. If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

Josette Sheeran

#10. Many men today can cook, or at least order takeout, and know where and how to hire domestic help, perhaps with refreshing clarity and less anxiety than ever-conflicted mothers.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#11. This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.

Josette Sheeran

#12. The oppressed people of Palestine, whether those who dwell in that bloodstained holy land or those who continue to bear the brunt of hardship and displacement worldwide, are all in all the victims of Zionist discrimination and aggression,

Mohammad Khatami

#13. Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.

Jack Johnson

#14. There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food - the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

Josette Sheeran

#15. We were seventeen, furious at everything because we didn't know what else to do with the fact that the war was over.

Tea Obreht

#16. Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.

Umar

#17. One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people.

Josette Sheeran