Herbert Hoover Quotes

Hold your kids from eating for 3 or 4 days, and see what they tell you on the 5th day. Hunger is a bad thing.

The whole district seemed swept of food and a third of the population would be without food at Christmas, two thirds starving before February and by May 1848, there would be a total starvation.

Hunger is a bad adviser.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.

Hunger is the best pickle.

No one in the country is actually starving.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe

I do think we have a food problem. In 2006, which is the year for which we have the latest data, 35.5 million Americans were food insecure. That means there are 35.5 million Americans who are so hard up at some point during the year that they didn't know where their next meal was coming from. That's a lot of Americans. They don't get reported very much because there's nothing spectacular about people skipping a meal because they're poor. The media tends to ignore that, just as it ignores the sort of chronic food shortages elsewhere in the world.

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.

There are people who go to bed hungry, and that is unconscionable.

The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are a great number of working poor, struggling to survive, who don't have enough money to put adequate food on the table. We must find a solution to this ever-increasing problem - and quickly.

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

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.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

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.

In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

To be hungry must be awful.

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.