Starving Quotes

• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiring, Thankful

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Leadership, World, Originals

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• I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

  Coretta Scott King

  Mother, Children, School

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• It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

  Jim Carrey

  Dream, Wisdom, Giving Up

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• I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Insanity, Mind, Naked

  "Howl" l. 1 (1956)

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• Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

  Yoko Ono

  Bed Of Roses, Widows, Bears

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

  Thomas Friedman

  Education, Daughter, Mother

  "Why the World Is Flat". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

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• I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Money, Inspirational Life, Men

  "Rain Still Follows Him: The President's Vermont Trip Marked by Storms". Speech in Rutland, Vermont, reported in The New York Times, August 29, 1891 issue p. 5,

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• It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Believe, Food

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• It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

  Judith Light

  People, Political, World

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• I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

  Pete Domenici

  Democracy, Hungry, Said

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• I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Party, People, House

  "The Eat, Pray, Love author and GQ alum talks about a new cookbook". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 24, 2012.

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• Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Children, Intelligent, Intelligence

  Andrea Dworkin (1983). “Right Wing Women”, Perigee Trade

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• We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

  E. O. Wilson

  Motivational, Running, Knowledge

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.399, Vintage

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• In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story.

  Sheryl Crow

  Country, Children, School

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• But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Nature, Men, Law

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

  Rosalind Russell

  Funny, Life, Movie

  "Fictional character: Mame Dennis". "Auntie Mame", www.imdb.com. 1958.

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• If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

  Jim Carrey

  Dream, Giving Up, Risks And Taking Chances

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• Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.

  Kristen Ashley

  Hate, Beast, Prey

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• As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

  Ben Kingsley

  Risk, Actors, Possibility

  "I can do anything" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. January 02, 2001.

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• When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.

  Bruce Barton

  Lunch, Breakfast, Breakfast Being Important

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• To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

  Gloria Steinem

  Cupcakes, America, People

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• Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.

  Alan Freed

  Music, Dance, Song

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• Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

  Richard Wright

  Integrity, Men, Self

  Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.366, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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