Top 533 Starving Quotes & Sayings

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving.

I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the banks of levee, and he's starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he's so desperate, he's seven years old, that he finds a pig that's been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.

People are starving for truth and leadership.

Why are the people starving?- Because their grain is being eaten up by the taxes That's why they're starving Why are people rebellious?- Because those above them meddle in their lives That's why they're rebellious Why do people regard death so lightly?- Because they are so involved with their own living That's why they regard death so lightly In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go

When we say, 'We are starving,' we have to remember that there are people who are literally starving. If everyone fed one person, one meal, we could make a huge difference.

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

I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.

...won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

A starving army is actually worse than none.

One man starving puts a crimp in my evening.

We wouldnt ever eat anybody, would we? No. Of course not. Even if we were starving? We're starving now. You said we werent. I said we werent dying. I didnt say we werent starving. But we wouldnt. No. We wouldnt. No matter what. No. No matter what. Because we're the good guys. Yes. And we're carrying the fire. And we're carrying the fire. Yes. Okay.

America is hungry and starving for more infrastructure investment.

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.

And he's pressing into her and she into him, bodies shivering, like they are two scared, lost children, starving, starving to be touched, to be held, by someone, anyone, the first one they can find who seems familiar enough, safe enough, strong enough to rescue them. They breathe, heavy. Hard. Their fingers strain at cotton. And then they slow down. Stop. Hold. Rest. Before one of them, or both, begins to sob. Before they break another piece that needs to be fixed.

The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.

We are all children starving to experience and know the heart of reality.

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

Campaigning actress ASHLEY JUDD refuses to 'breed' with her racing star husband DARIO FRANCHITTI while there are starving children in the world. . . . She says, 'It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.'

They don’t eat that much.” “In comparison to what? Starving marines?

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven't eaten for three hours, we think we're starving. You're not starving - human beings can go for 30 days without food.

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

I don't think that Saddam Hussein is deliberately starving his own people. I would think that a man who gets 99 percent of the people to vote for him in an election and the people love him so much, how would they love a man that is starving them?

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.'

When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.

I always felt bad for Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa lived a whole life helping starving children and dying villages, but she could never be declared a saint 'cause she never actually performed a miracle. And it was towards the end, she was desperate to perform a miracle, so she would go up to starving children and go, 'What's that behind your ear? It's a quarter!

I'm basically a starving artist.

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

Give me a scotch, I'm starving.

I do not believe in starving myself.

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

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

It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

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

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.” from “Memoriam

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

Starving for a high, a place to hang out inside my own head. Starving for touch. Pain, even. A way to feel. I need to feel.

And after awhile of this my brain and my body and every single inch of me that was alive was flooded with the feeling that I was starving, starving for Edmond. And what a coincidence, that was the feeling I loved best in the world.

I was planning on being a starving artist.

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

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

You don't get the attention of gluttons by starving anorexics.

The starving poet business is no good nowadays.

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

Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn.

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.

I was a starving artist.

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.