George Foreman Quotes

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

Bread did not have its usual nourishing power and strength because the grain was not nourished by the warmth of summer sunshine. Hence those who ate it, even in large quantities, were hungry again after a little while. There can be no doubt that the poor wasted away when even the rich were constantly hungry.... Four pennies worth of coarse bread was not enough to feed a common man for one day. The usual kinds of meat, suitable for eating, were too scarce; horse meat was precious; plump dogs were stolen. And, according to many reports, men and women in many places secretly ate their own children....

In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.

When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

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

No one in the country is actually starving.

I know how it feels to go hungry.

Too many children and adults go hungry every day.

Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't meant this. You say: Wait, not this. And then it sucks you under and you drown.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

I wish anyone in this world could go to his fridge and pick whatever he wants. Because the day you open your fridge and there is nothing in it, it is difficult.

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

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

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

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

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

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's a great spur.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

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.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

Empty stomachs have no ears.