Famine Quotes
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Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.
— Richard Cecil
When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine.
— Mo Ibrahim
Recession, terrorism, debts, political turmoil, disease, famine, mortality... screw it, I'm putting googly eyes on things.
— Charles R.L. Guthrie
Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
— William Osler
They that die by famine die by inches.
— Matthew Henry
Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.
— Criss Jami
It's feast or famine in showbiz.
— Joan Rivers
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Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, till famine cling thee.
— William Shakespeare
For the increase in the number of my Brennan cousins," Conall remarked dryly, "we must thank the potato.
— Edward Rutherfurd
The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors.
— Lao-Tzu
If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century,
— Bruno Le Maire
I died last night. Seventy years too young.
— Colin Thompson
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!
— Robert Green Ingersoll
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
— Peter Straub
Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.
— Akong Rinpoche
Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind
— Rajendra K. Pachauri
Kings were always the last to feel the famine. That
— James S.A. Corey
The only legitimate excuse you could have for having a baby in those dire, war torn, famine struck conditions - would be to eat it.
— Doug Stanhope
There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.
— Peter Singer
No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press.
— Amartya Sen
African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.
— P. J. O'Rourke
It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.
— George R R Martin
The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.
— Douglas Adams
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.
— Amartya Sen
Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
— Jackson Browne
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
— Nikki Giovanni
When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance.- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death
— Robert Asprin
She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases.
— William Dean Howells
The Bible teaches that there will be a famine of the Word of God in the last days ... spiritual starvation leads to spiritual death.
— Billy Graham
I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
— Chelsea Clinton
Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.
— Richard Manning
Scripture indicates that deception, false religions, and apostasy lead to war, and that war in turn leads to famine and pestilence.
— Billy Graham
I closed my eyes and prayed for divine intervention.I waited a beat and nothing happened.
Guess God was busy with war and famine and the like. — Kristen Ashley
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.
— John Wesley Powell
if you say!"A woman is A problem"
Gentleman,
"Probably you have never seen her sweeter part — Qalandar Nawaz
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
During the twentieth century, communist governments killed some 100 million of their own people in peacetime, either by repression or by famine.
— Charles Wheelan
It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years,
— Russell Brand
Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.
— William Shawcross
That's what'll happen to you if you don't eat your greens; she looked like a famine-relief poster with style.
— Terry Pratchett
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
— Nikolai Gogol
The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.
— William E. Gladstone
Even in times of famine, we have more than enough to eat.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.
— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Widespread famine, poverty, and disease. Half a dozen wars. You know: dogs and cats living together ... mass hysteria!
— Ernest Cline
Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine.
— Josh Schwartz
Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.
— David Wong Louie
I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
Nice recall on the famine lesson, buddy,' I
— Chris O'Dowd
Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence so why bother shaving?
— Woody Allen
There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.
— Komla Dumor
She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.
— Arundhati Roy
For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.
— George MacDonald
They considered themselves free and no one will ever be free as long as there is plague, pestilence and famine
— Albert Camus
Famine was a dirty bitch with rotten fangs, but the hunger she put in a belly bit sharp nonetheless.
— T. Frohock
Cholera was always a problem in unsanitary, crowded conditions; it broke out in workhouses throughout the famine years. When
— Ryan Hackney
John Mitchel's famous declaration that God sent the blight but the English created the Famine.
— Tim Pat Coogan
A man in the trading center was caught trying to sell his two young daughters. The buyer had informed the police. People were becoming desperate.
— William Kamkwamba
The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
We Irish know how to make the most of the times of plenty, for sure enough they'll be famine again.
— Karen Marie Moning
There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.
— Piers Morgan
The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
And this famine was as purely a product of oversize brains as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
— Kurt Vonnegut
So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.
— Joseph Hume
Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.
— Chuck Palahniuk
There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.
— Walter Duranty
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
— Douglas William Jerrold
