Colin Farrell Quotes

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

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

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.

The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.

A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.

I do think we have a food problem. In 2006, which is the year for which we have the latest data, 35.5 million Americans were food insecure. That means there are 35.5 million Americans who are so hard up at some point during the year that they didn't know where their next meal was coming from. That's a lot of Americans. They don't get reported very much because there's nothing spectacular about people skipping a meal because they're poor. The media tends to ignore that, just as it ignores the sort of chronic food shortages elsewhere in the world.

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.

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.

Our great country is rich and abundant in so many ways. It is totally unacceptable to me that we have children and families going hungry!

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.

I saw so many innocent lives, especially children, who were literally robbed of their potential because they're not given the food and nutrition that they need to get by. As a result, when young kids aren't given that proper nutrition, their minds are stunted; they're physically stunted. Truly, their start in life is one that is debilitating to them. And again, 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 do something about.

They that die by famine die by inches.

I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.

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

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

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.

People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

The free press is good on major disasters like classic famines, but it tolerates chronic hunger as much as anyone else.