Shakira Quotes

You can't expect kids who don't have enough to eat to do well.

When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.

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

What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.

The federal government spends about $2.51 per child per day to feed them lunch. Out of that, you have to pay for labor, facilities, and administrative costs, leaving about a dollar for food. Imagine trying to feed yourself a nutritious meal every day with only a dollar. Very difficult.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.

Being a mom, I can't imagine my child not having a meal. That's hard to digest.

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

Hunger is the best pickle.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

You can’t make progress in any of the other problems in the world if people are undernourished.

I have stopped at farm after farm where lean, underfed women and sickly men repeated again and again the same story—little food and no opportunity to get more.

The hungry man does not hear.

The worst food comes to the poor, which their poverty makes them buy and their necessity makes them eat. Their stomachs are the waste-basket of the State. It is their lot to swallow all the adulterations on the market.

No one in the country is actually starving.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

People may have to die in the country and die through starvation.

The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.

Poor young children and the elderly must be fed at public expense.

This year alone, total world cereal production was estimated to be 2,114 million tons, while total cereal demand was projected at around 1007 million tones, less than half of the cereal production. Ideally, no one should starve or die of hunger in the world we live. Strangely and sadly enough, they do. This is not fair. This is not right.

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

The misery of the people here is very great, the beggars innumerable and increasing everyday…One half of the people in Ireland eat neither bread nor flesh for one half of the year, nor wear Shoes or Stockings; your Hogs in England and Essex Calves lie and live better than they.

If a man dies of hunger, all the people of the district are responsible for his death

Hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or White Republicans