Maverick Carter Quotes

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.

A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

You can't expect kids who don't have enough to eat to do well.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

I didn't study; I live.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers.

Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

Every second of every day there are three new mouths to feed in this world.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

Education depends on 5 factors: The attendance at school, the time spent watching television at home, the time of reading at home, the amount of reading material in home, and the number of parents in home.

Hunger is a bad adviser.

Food poverty comes in two strands. The first is not having enough money to buy food for yourself and your family. The second is poverty of education.

South Sudan is my home, and I am humbled to be in a position to help those suffering from lack of access to basic needs, especially the children facing severe acute malnutrition.

Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.

Give children healthy food and they behave better at school, concentrate more in class and perform better in exams.

Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her child, yet millions of poor women have for generations. Help the World Food Programme break this cycle. No child should inherit hunger.

Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.

We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education.