"Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with
it."
- Mary Ritter Beard
"A dog starved at his master's gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.
- William Blake
"There's no sauce in the world like hunger."
- Miguel de Cervantes
"Society is composed of two great classes -- those who have more dinners than appetite, and
those who have more appetite than dinners."
- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
"The Queen has lands and gold, Mother
The Queen has lands and gold,
While you are forced to your empty breast
A skeleton Babe to hold..."
- Amelia Edwards
"Hunger is insolent, and will be fed."
- Homer
"The belly is the reason why man does not
mistake himself for a god."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"A hungry man is an angry man."
- English Proverb
"You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears."
- Greek Proverb
"A hungry man is not a free man."
- Adlai Stevenson
"If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that
God didn't care for
them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the
hands of God, to give
them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more
Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child,
and seeking for shelter."
- Mother Theresa
"Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love
his neighbor on an empty stomach."
- Woodrow Wilson