“Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.”
Variant: Love is,” she repeated slowly, looking only at Dasha, “when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry
Source: The Bronze Horseman
Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian archbishop, as quoted in Peace Behind Bars : A Peacemaking Priest's Journal from Jail (1995) by John Dear, p. 65; this is a translation of "Quando dou comida aos pobres chamam-me de santo. Quando pergunto por que eles são pobres chamam-me de comunista."
Variant translations:
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why are they poor, they call me a Communist.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist.
Misattributed
“You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.”
David Lloyd George
Misattributed
“Lean, hungry, savage anti-everythings.”
A modest Request; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.”
Source: North of Beautiful
