Terence Lewis Quotes

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

I certainly didn't grow up ever having to worry about where my next meal was coming from. The fact that so many people, even in our own country, worry about something so basic, it's something I really wanted to help to do something about.

Food poverty comes in two strands. The first is not having enough money to buy food for yourself and your family. The second is poverty of education.

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

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers.

When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.

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.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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

There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.

No one in the country is actually starving.

Hunger could not exist but through violation of economic laws and fundamental principles of social justice.

If Victual should prove scarce, as we have not Goods or Money for any Value to send out for Corns [food grains like wheat]; so only a part of the People could be maintained: The better part would have Bread, but the more necessary part, the Laboring Men would be forced to leave the Country, or to starve in it.

It's interesting - the greatest country in the world, we shouldn't have people starving. We shouldn't have young people not getting something to eat.

We don't need to cure hunger - we know how to solve hunger - it's food, it's nutrition, and it's really a question of access.

Hunger is an issue that I've cared about for a very long time and is incredibly personal and important to me.

It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want. Not that all who perish from want absolutely die of hunger; though this calamity is of more frequent occurrence than is generally supposed.

When you are already eating as cheaply and meagerly as possible, any raise in cost can quickly plunge you and your family into hunger.

We have made a commitment to feed 20-million people over the next two years. We are somewhere around 10 million. But I can promise you that we are not going to stop at 20 million. Because hunger, there is almost no cure for it. You can take care of the problem today, but it is a recurring problem.

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.