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Famine Quotes

There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.

There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.

Mother Teresa
America, Truth Of Life, Famine

They that die by famine die by inches.

Matthew Henry
Hunger, Inches, Famine
An Exposition on the Old and New Testament Psalm 59 (1710)

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

Richard Cecil
Soul, Famine, Unbelief

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

David Sedaris
Hunger, Braces, Famine
David Sedaris (2009). “Naked”, p.191, Hachette UK

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

Amartya Sen
Prevention, Causation, Famine

There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.

Walter Duranty
Starvation, Famine
"1930s journalist Gareth Jones to have story retold" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2009.

Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

John Milton
Should, Horrible, Famine
John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.509

Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.

David Wong Louie
Plates, Famine
David Wong Louie (2000). “The Barbarians are Coming: A Novel”, Marian Wood

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

Mark Twain
War, Famine, Hard
Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1279, GENERAL PRESS

If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century.

Bruno Le Maire
Scandal, Century, Famine

We can solve world peace and world famine.

Reince Priebus
World, Famine
Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.

Amartya Sen
Democracy, Famine, Free Press