Hunger Quotes

Do you not see the wealth of the land of the Persians ? Do you not remember the poverty of the land of the Arabs ? Do you not see how the crops in this land cover the earth ? If the holy war were not enjoined by Allah, we should still come and conquer this rich land and exchange the hunger of our deserts for the abundant eating which is now ours.

al-Walid, Khalid ibn

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

Theodore Bikel

For hunger is a sauce, well blended and prepared, for any food.

Crestens de Troies

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Bible

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

Les Brown

As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger

Fidel Castro

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.

Fiona Apple Maggart

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

A. N. Wilson

All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.

Carson Mccullers

To find your mission in life is to discover the intersection between your heart's deep gladness and the world's deep hunger.

Frederick Beekner

What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

Flaccus Albinus Alcuin

For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.

Loring A. Schuler

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets.

Unknown

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Milicent Fenwick