Demetri Martin Quotes

Hunger allows no choice.

Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.

Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.

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

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

[Starving] women, children, the elderly, they don’t know anything about four-party talks. They want to eat. They want to live.

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.

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

One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people.

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.

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

There are people who go to bed hungry, and that is unconscionable.

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.

Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

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....

Hunger is a bad adviser.

I used to fill my stomach with water because I didn't have money to pay for food.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.