quotations about hunger
We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet.
RONALD REAGAN
speech, "A Time for Choosing", October 27, 1964
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Julius Caesar
Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
RICHARD WRIGHT
Black Boy
I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.
NEIL GAIMAN
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Their anger in darkness turning, unreleased, unspoken, it's mouth a red wound, its eyes hungry ... hungry for the moon.
ALAN MOORE
Swamp Thing #40
Hunger teachesh many things.
LABERIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
My more-having would be as a sauce
To make me hunger more.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
JOSÉ SARAMAGO
Baltasar and Blimunda