Quotes on Hunger

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Author: Theodor Adorno

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Author: Sholom Aleichem

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

Author: Drew Barrymore

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Author: Pearl Buck

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

Author: Joan Chen

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Author: George Eliot

Hunger is the best pickle.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

Author: Giovanni Guareschi

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

Author: Homer

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Author: Jonathan Swift

I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that.

Author: David Talbot

Success is often on the other side of uncertainty; just like for every sandwich denied at the lunch counter, there’s a feast concealed behind fear.

Author: Maya Angelou