Child Hunger Quotes

Growing up, I had a lot of family members who worked in the Dallas Independent School District, and they shared stories firsthand with me about kids stepping into the cafeteria hungry before practice, or waiting for the school building to open the next morning just so they could get a meal.

As a chef, a mom, and a member of Team No Kid Hungry, I believe that every child deserves three meals a day, every day.

We don't want a country populated by children feeding themselves from garbage dumps.

A huge amount still needs to be done. At the moment hundreds of children are still malnourished.

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

Being a mom, I am even more inspired to really help make a difference. I can't imagine what it would be like if my child didn't have a meal to eat.

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

Being a mom, I can't imagine my child not having a meal. That's hard to digest.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.

There's a lot of children that go to bed every night hungry in New York City, and it's shameful. That's really disturbing to me.

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry.

When we think about millions of hungry children, we don't think about America. We relate the problem to other nations, like Ethiopia, India or Somalia. The sad truth is that one is five American kids is at risk due to poor nutrition.

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.

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

Cars are necessary, but take a more humble one. Think of how many children die of hunger and dedicate the savings to them.

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.

I'm a mum and I hate the thought of any child going a whole day at school without a healthy meal.

The answers to feeding hungry children is not fewer dollars to feed hungry children, it's to do more. It is to raise the minimum wage. It is to increase, not dismantle, the earned income tax credit. It is to make college more affordable for more middle class families, not more expensive. These are the things that grow our middle class.

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.

In 2020, no child should go hungry, and yet, in South Carolina 1-in-5 children do.

That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

Twelve million children in the United States face hunger every day. Bringing an end to this terrible situation is a passion I share with my friends in the entertainment industry. Together we can end hunger.

My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.