Richard J. Roberts Quotes

India unfortunately has the unenviable reputation of being the home to the largest number of undernourished children, women and men in the world.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

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.

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

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.

The world is rich enought today that the idea of millions of children dying of disease is unacceptable. We have the resouurces and know how to prevent this.

My own motivation has come from the fact that all the indicators in the world, the hunger index or whatever index you say, shows a high prevalence of malnutrition.

Too many children and adults go hungry every day.

Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.

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

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.