Hunger Quotes - Page 2

• I suspect that hunger was my mother.

  Plautus

  Mother, Suspects

  "Stichus". Act II. 1. 1,

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• As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

  Suzanne Collins

  Katniss, Long, Finding Yourself

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.47, Scholastic Inc.

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• Hunger is the best sauce.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Food, Sauce

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• Hungry bellies have no ears.
  [Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Ears, Hungry, Belly

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• You call that a kiss?

  Suzanne Collins

  Kissing, Haymitch

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• And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.

  Suzanne Collins

  Here I Am, Games, Tree

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• Hungry bellies have no cars.

  Francois Rabelais

  Car, Hungry, Belly

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• 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.

  Giovannino Guareschi

  Thank You, Dog, Giving

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• It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves. Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers [of the Seam] and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hatred, Causes, Tools

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.16, Scholastic Inc.

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• Fruitful is the entire life of those, who feel hunger for the Name of the Lord in their minds.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Names, Mind, Lord

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• Many people think that hunger is unavoidable in any society, even a society that is blessed with great abundance. That is not true. The European community does not have widespread hunger. America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Children, Blessed, Thinking

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• There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Uplifting, Baby

  Speech on radio, 21 Mar. 1943, in Complete Speeches (1974) vol. 7, p. 6761

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• America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

  Pierce Brosnan

  America, Childhood, Ending Hunger

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• I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

  Mother Teresa

  Responsibility, Looks, Poverty

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• You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete.

  Lennox Lewis

  Goal, Missions, Percent

  "Lewis steps outside the ring". Interview with Karie Atkinson, www.cnn.com. February 6, 2004.

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• Hunger is the handmaid of genius

  Mark Twain

  Genius, Handmaids

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
  [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

  Juvenal

  Heaven, Greek, Hungry

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• It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

  Simone Weil

  Suffering, Chance, Aids

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.5, Routledge

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• We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

  Maria Mitchell

  Inspirational, Change, Educational

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• Because...because...she came here with me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hunger For Love, Games, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.130, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

  Suzanne Collins

  Games, Pieces, Capitol

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.137, Scholastic Inc.

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• Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

  George Orwell

  Power, Self, Deception

  George Orwell (2005). “In defence of English cooking”, Penguin Hardcover

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• It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Spiritual, Food, Evil

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• Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stronger, Want, Gale Hawthorne

  "Fictional character: Gale Hawthorne". "The Hunger Games", www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Embrace, Imminent Death, Probability

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