Hunger Relief Week

Famous quotes containing the words hunger, relief and/or week:

    “They said they were an-hungry; sighed forth proverbs—
    That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,
    That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not
    Corn for the rich men only.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “One story recounts that a Tennessean, after a single day in the then almost impenetrable tangle of cypress, briars, and canebreaks, pestered by myriads of mosquitoes, and bogged in the heavy gumbo mud, declared: “Arkansas is not part of the world for which Jesus Christ died—I want none of it.””
    —Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.”
    —Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)