Quotes About Hunger In America

#1. We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of our newspapers or is featured on news programs because of its lack of sensationalism, the problem exists in massive proportions and must be defeated.

Bruce Davison

#2. 'The Hunger Games' takes place in Panem, a country which is part of America. It's post-apocalyptic. There's been a global war. The Panem country is what remains of this hugely destructive war.

Liam Hemsworth

#3. Eliminating hunger in America is doable, because we have the resources to do it.

Howard Graham Buffett

#4. America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

Pierce Brosnan

#5. 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

#6. There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.

Gail Simmons

#7. Walmart is committed to fighting hunger in America every day.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#8. It's appalling that there should be hunger anywhere, but particularly in a country like America, where there is also such great wealth.

Elizabeth Hurley

#9. More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.

Robert Reich

#10. 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

#11. I've had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America.

Mike Huckabee

#12. America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will.

Christie Brinkley

#13. Only the believing obey, only the obedient believe

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#14. If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

Tom Waits

#15. To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial.

Anais Nin

#16. You actually fucked her? What, did her forked tongue feel exceptionally good on your dick or something? - Keely to Jack after meeting his ex-girlfriend.

Lorelei James

#17. You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

Henry Miller

#18. There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.

Alexander Woollcott

#19. When nonprofits, companies and consumers work together, we believe we can make long term, positive change for the millions of people in America who struggle with hunger.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#20. What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it's children.

John Dewey

#21. One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp.

Jeff Bridges

#22. And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe it's what happens between when they begin and end that's the story.

Arianna Huffington

#23. the market economy should be subordinate to and so reinforce the virtuous life.

Daniel M. Bell Jr.

#24. If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.

Frederick Salomon Perls

#25. The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children.

Sandra Lee

#26. The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.

Norman O. Brown

#27. It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.

Elizabeth Wein

#28. What were they going to do after killing the president, declare themselves king?

Yahtzee Croshaw

#29. It's hard to believe that, in the 1970's, America was virtually hunger-free. During the past two decades, we have allowed hunger to attack our most precious resource, our children. We must reinstate and strengthen programs to eliminate this blight on our society.

Kurtwood Smith

#30. My family grew up relying on public assistance to help provide meals for our family. Child hunger in America is a real and often overlooked problem, but one that together, we can fix.

Scarlett Johansson

#31. Now, don't get me wrong, I think border security is important. And I have no doubt that the Republican plan for turning our southern border into The Hunger Games will put a stop to the #1 threat facing America today - illegal cleaning ladies.

Bill Maher

#32. America wrestles with its obesity crisis to such an extent that Americans forget there are worse weight problems on earth than obesity.

Melissa Fay Greene

#33. But it isn't hunger that drives millions of armed American Males to forests and hills every autumn, as the high incidence of heart failure among the hunters will prove. Somehow the hunting process has to do with masculinity, but I don't quite know how.

John Steinbeck

#34. 'Hunger Games' is a tried-and-true tale about a totalitarian society. It's more similar to China than America, but it's also similar to Nazi Germany and anywhere where the populace gets semi-brainwashed into serving the agenda of a very few.

Elizabeth Banks

#35. 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 - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

Jeff Bridges

#36. In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.'

Naomi Wolf

#37. The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.

Matt Damon