George Herbert Quotes

There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.

The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

When you're drinking from a creek, it's not a good news story. When you don't have food for a baby, it's not a good news story.

Orissa is cursed by the two tragic extremes of drought and famine.

Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast.

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

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.

The drought was the very worst when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst.

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

Famine has wreaked havoc in Ethiopia for so long, it would be stupid not to be sensitive to the risk of such things occurring. But there has not been a famine on our watch - emergencies, but no famines.

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

We saw many deserted homes. Hope's skeletons they are, with their yawning doors and windows like eyeless sockets. Some of the houses, which looked as if they were deserted, held families. We camped near one such. Mrs. O'Shaughnessy and I went up to the house to buy some eggs. A hopeless looking woman came to the door. The hot winds and the alkali dust had tanned her skin and bleached her hair; both were a gray-brown. Her eyes were blue, but were so tired-looking that I could hardly see for the tears. "No," she said, "we ain't got no eggs. We ain't got no chickens. You see this ground is sandy, and last year the wind blowed awful hard and all the grain blowed out, so we did not have no chance to raise chickens. We had no feed and no money to buy feed, so we had to kill our chickens to save their lives. We eat them. They would have starved anyway.

Full stomachs don't believe empty ones.

Famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful resource of nature.

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

Economics, not force of arms will decide; not battles, but famine.

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.

In Spain, there is a good deal to see but not much to eat.

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....

People who, whether they inhabit the desert or settled areas and cities, live a life of abundance and have all the good things to eat, die more quickly than others when a drought or famine comes upon them

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