Quotes about Hunger
The cayote is a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton, with a gray wolf-skin stretched over it, a tolerably bushy tail that forever sags down with a despairing expression of forsakenness and misery, a furtive and evil eye, and a long, sharp face, with slightly lifted lip and exposed teeth. He has a general slinking expression all over. The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry.
— Mark Twain
What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
— Catherine of Siena
The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.
— Mother Teresa
His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.
— Graham Greene
I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping people who have physical problems, like AIDS and orphans and hunger.
— Bruce Wilkinson
Desire grows by what it feeds on.
— LM Montgomery
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
— Pablo Picasso
This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.
— Ellen White