Joanne Liu Quotes

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

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

To be hungry must be awful.

There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.

They that die by famine die by inches.

When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.

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

I am dying of hunger.

Hunger is the best pickle.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Death by starvation is slow.

We don't want a country populated by children feeding themselves from garbage dumps.

No one has starved.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

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.

Hunger is a bad adviser.

I believe we're living at a time in human history where it's just simply unacceptable that children wake up and don't know where to find a cup of food. Not only that, transforming hunger is an opportunity, but I think we have to change our mindsets … I would like you to join with all of humanity to draw a line in the sand and say, "No more. No more are we going to accept this." And we want to tell our grandchildren that there was a terrible time in history where up to a third of the children had brains and bodies that were stunted, but that exists no more.

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.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

Believe me, there's nothing I hate more than feeling hungry.

It's an awful feeling, being hungry.

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

We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.