African Proverb Quotes

I left home because I was hungry.

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

Empty stomachs have no ears.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Hunger is the best pickle.

A hungry man is an angry one.

A hungry belly hears nobody.

No one wants to kiss when they are hungry.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

[Starving] women, children, the elderly, they don’t know anything about four-party talks. They want to eat. They want to live.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

I would take vouchers, do sums in my head just to get some eggs and bread or a tin of cheap Irish stew. I'd be starving and want two tins but couldn't afford it. The poorer you are the hungrier you feel.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

Hunger allows no choice.

Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.

What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.