Hungry Quotes (4 quotes)
It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
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Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you’re no longer hungry, but you haven’t been nourished.
Quoted, without source, in Harmik Vaishnav, Dictionary of Humourous Quotations (2021), 32.
We cannot feed the hungry with statistics of national prosperity.
Speech in the House of Commons (6 Jan 1904). Quoted in epigraph, Montagu de Pomeroy Webb and Edward FitzGerald Law, India and the Empire: A Consideration of the Tariff Problem (1908), 36. [This has been misattributed (?) to Heinrich Heine, as the variant, “You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.”]
What is art
But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
When, graduating up in a spiral line
Of still expanding and ascending gyres,
It pushed toward the intense significance
Of all things, hungry for the Infinite?
But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
When, graduating up in a spiral line
Of still expanding and ascending gyres,
It pushed toward the intense significance
Of all things, hungry for the Infinite?
From poem, 'Aurora Leigh' (1856), Book 4. In Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Harriet Waters Preston (ed.), The Complete Poetical Works of Mrs. Browning (1900), 323.