Top 40 Quotes About Starving Children
#1. When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.
Helene D. Gayle
#2. Hell is also the memory of starving children in the slums of Armaghast and the smile of politicians sending boys off to die in colonial wars.
Dan Simmons
#3. So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets ...
Oscar Wilde
#4. I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.
Coretta Scott King
#5. I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full of starving dogs.
Thomm Quackenbush
#6. It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries,
Ashley Judd
#7. I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
Ann Druyan
#8. I see women and children starving to death, homes destroyed and buried in rubble, the countryside a burnt landscape, its only fruit the rotting flesh of casualties. I see dead dead dead red and burgundy and maroon and the richest shade of your mother's favorite lipstick all smeared into the earth.
Tahereh Mafi
#9. The Vale is not real.
It's a lie told by mothers and fathers to give their starving children a reason for the horror. There is no reason.
There is nothing but this world. It is our beginning and our end. Our one chance at joy before the dark.
Pierce Brown
#10. I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like lives are hanging in the balance, like precision dancing can save the starving children of India.
Audrey Niffenegger
#11. We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don't see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. We miss it, and in missing it, we allow the world to be destroyed.
Andrew Harvey
#12. The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.
Paul Samuelson
#13. We wanted to donate the pennies to the starving children in America.
Anchee Min
#14. We are all children starving to experience and know the heart of reality.
Robert H. Schuller
#15. In 'The Hunger Games,' in most people's idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for a necessary war. These people are oppressed, their children are being taken off and put in gladiator games. They're impoverished, they're starving, they're brutalized.
Suzanne Collins
#16. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed. It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table. The
A.W. Tozer
#17. It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table.
A.W. Tozer
#18. This is a favorite game, matching wits with a Raker. He is blind to the dead, to the burning villages, to the starving children. As is the Rebel. Two blind armies, able to see nothing but one another.
Glen Cook
#19. To me, the words "food" and "guilt" didn't belong in the same sentence unless, say, you were referring to how you felt about the starving children in Africa.
Kate Madison
#20. In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story.
Sheryl Crow
#21. Ford considers that development journalism means getting behind the cliches of starving children and getting people to tell their own stories: "We are looking at big policies affecting developing countries and looking at how this relates on the ground to those who expect to be benefiting.
Anonymous
#22. With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
Bob Brown
#23. The Chinese ate soy as a protein source only when they were starving - when they also ate their children.
Anonymous
#24. Of course there are mothers,
squeezing their breasts
dry, pawning their bodies,
shedding teeth for their children,
or that's our fond belief.
But remember - Hansel
and Gretel were dumped in the forest
because their parents were starving.
Margaret Atwood
#25. By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.
Warren Farrell
#26. To be honest, I was sometimes even jealous of those starving children in India, because nobody ever told them to finish up everything on their plate.
Amos Oz
#27. An equation: 40,000 dead young men = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh, 124,000 pounds of brain matter, 50,000 gallons of blood, 1,840,000 years of life that will never be lived, 100,000 children that will never be born (the last we can afford: there are too many starving children in the world already).
Dalton Trumbo
#28. Nobody wants zealotry in a police force, you know? You do want to know that the guy who's got that badge, is confident enough to judge a certain level of benign corruption. Like a man steals some food to feed his starving children.
Russell Crowe
#29. We need to be clear in calling out evil for what it is. When people will behead a child, and when people will leave people starving on top of a mountain without food or water - 40,000 of them - I don't care what religion it is: It's evil.
Mike Huckabee
#30. Always make time to eat. Always. There's enough starving children in the world without adding to their number
Diane Samuels
#31. There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.
Tim Minchin
#32. There's always got to be room for what you might call benign corruption. Nobody blames a man who steals food to feed his starving children, but on the other hand, somebody who picks up a badge and takes an oath to serve and protect; we do expect a certain level of essential honesty.
Denzel Washington
#33. Are you going to last if I start nibbling at your ankles and work my way up?"
"No. You might make it to my knee, but only if I think about starving children and venereal warts.
Katie MacAlister
#34. We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a tragic fact but worlds away from our reality.
Jonathan Tropper
#35. It was usual to be obedient to authority, to obey a legal letter. But Rachaela left her bills
unpaid until the threats began. She ignored the money-envelopes stuck through the door for starving
children and the sick.
Tanith Lee
#36. The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child's reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.
Boyd K. Packer
#37. Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernutrition - the kind most common among poor people in America - can do it.
Carl Sagan
#38. We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.
James Patterson
#39. I never again want to see the face of a starving child or hear the weeping of a mother who has lost her son to war. Peace, this is what my husband gave his life for, and I want the world to know that he did not die in vain. Peace, this is what will make me very happy.
Jehan Sadat
#40. Sin is not just the wrong stuff we do; it's the good we don't do. It's the starving children we don't want to look at, the volunteering we avoid, the poor we don't want to serve, and the money we don't want to give.
John Ortberg
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