Diane Ackerman Quotes

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

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

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

We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.

Hunger is the best pickle.

The moment I wake up, I have to eat. If I don't eat, I feel like my blood pressure is dropping. I get crabby if I have gone more than half an hour without eating.

No one has starved.

You cannot in practice have a federal guarantee that people won't starve.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

Hold your kids from eating for 3 or 4 days, and see what they tell you on the 5th day. Hunger is a bad thing.

Hunger is a bad adviser.

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.

Always have to think like a guy with no food in his refrigerator.

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

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

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.

Something inside me twists as I remember another voice. Rue. In the arena. When I gave her the leg of groosling. “Oh, I've never had a whole leg to myself before.” The disbelief of the chronically hungry.

Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving.

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.

I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are pains that come later. Personally I think terror is the painful part of starvation.