Best food & poverty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature

“Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.”

“To a man with an empty stomach food is God”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.”

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Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”

Source: Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms

“When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.”

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Author:Euripides

“You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.”

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Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.”

“Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth.”

“Money is the most secure in the pockets of the rich. The poor spend them immediately on food.”

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Book:Yet Another New Land

Source: Yet Another New Land

“Throwing food away is all too often a roundabout way of throwing food to a poor person.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“All too often, food is given to a poor person only because the giver is too lazy to go to the dustbin, or to look for one.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Such a waste," my mother said whenever she came to a game to find the sidelines littered with wedges, little land mines of uneaten fruit, of privilege. My family was always attuned to such waste: chicken left on the bone by diners too polite to eat with their hands, crusts cut off of sandwiches for children who took only a single bite and left the rest.”

Poverty Food Waste

Book:Transcendent Kingdom

Source: Transcendent Kingdom

“Happiness is a full larder.”

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Book:Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills

Source: Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills

“Food! Food! Why did the stomach have a longer memory than the mind? Scarlett could banish heartbreak but not hunger and each morning as she lay half asleep, before memory brought back to her mind war and hunger, she curled drowsily expecting the sweet smells of bacon frying and rolls baking. And each morning she sniffed so hard to really smell the food she woke herself up.”

Poverty Food Memory Hunger

Book:Gone with the wind

Source: Gone with the wind

“Life," said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine. I not only think about food all day, but I dream about it at night. But I don’t ask to go back to America, to be put in a double harness again, to work the treadmill. No, I prefer to be a poor man of Europe. God knows, I am poor enough; it only remains to be a man.”

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Author:Henry Miller

“Being poor or broke is made to seem worse than it is by the myth that we need to eat three meals a day.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Yemeğe en çok lezzet katan sos açlıktır.”

Poverty Food Taste

Book:La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes

Source: La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes

“A maid’s love for her own children often forces her to pretend to love her employer’s children.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“سأل مواطن أروبى 3 موطينين من 3 بلدان مختلفة فقال : ما رأيكم في أكل اللحم ؟ أجاب الأول: و ماهو اللحم؟ أجاب الثاني: و ماهو الأكل؟ أجاب الثالث: و ماهو الرأي؟”

Opinion Poverty Food

Book:سنوات المتاهة

Source: سنوات المتاهة

“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.”

“Hvad som ey dit Øye, Ser nøye, Kandst du uden Harme fordøye.”

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Book:Den Nordske Dale-Viise

Source: Den Nordske Dale-Viise

“Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.”

“For breakfast to be called ‘in bed’ instead of ‘on top of a bed,’ the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom.”

“Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“For the first time in my life, I was eating well and from plates—glass plates, no less, not out of the frying pan because somebody lost all the plates in the last move. Now when we ate, we sat at a fine round oak table in sturdy chairs that matched. No one rushed through the meal or argued over who got the biggest portion, and we ate three times a day.”

Poverty Food Foster Children

Book:No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care

Source: No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care

“If you don’t know your maker, chances are that you will never know yourself. If you don’t know yourself, you will bury your meals and complain of poverty!”

Source: Leaders' Watchwords

“An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect.”

“We cannot fight against the poverty and hunger in the world; when our stomachs are full of delicious food; the fighters must feel the poverty not imagine it.”

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Book:LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

“people who eat 3 meals a day throughout life have never really tasted Food...”

Poverty Food

Author:Charles Bukowski

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