Inspiring World Food Day Quotes to Ignite Change and Hope

Here are 100 inspiring quotes related to World Food Day:

1. "Food is our common ground, a universal experience." - James Beard

2. "Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world." - Malala Yousafzai

3. "There is no sincerer love than the love of food." - George Bernard Shaw

4. "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Mahatma Gandhi

5. "Food security is not just about food. It's about jobs, education, health, and peace." - Jose Graziano da Silva

6. "The future will either be green or not at all." - Bob Brown

7. "Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice." - Jacques Diouf

8. "The only way to end hunger is to end injustice." - Anuradha Mittal

9. "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." - Mother Teresa

10. "Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy." - Pope Francis

11. "You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil." - Joel Salatin

12. "We won't have a society if we destroy the environment." - Margaret Mead

13. "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." - Hippocrates

14. "When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger." - Giovanni Boccaccio

15. "Hunger is a political problem, and its solution is a political one too." - Norman Borlaug

16. "The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members." - Coretta Scott King

17. "Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world." - Norman Borlaug

18. "Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits." - Thomas Jefferson

19. "What we do to the earth, we do to ourselves." - Robin Wall Kimmerer

20. "World hunger is not a food production issue but rather a political and social one." - Jan Egeland

21. "Agriculture is our wisest pursuit because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness." - Thomas Jefferson

22. "Food can transform societies and economies." - Winnie Byanyima

23. "Poverty is the worst form of violence." - Mahatma Gandhi

24. "Food is the foundation of all societies." - John Robbins

25. "The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system." - Robert C. Peale

26. "Food is the key to ending inequality and fostering sustainability." - Danielle Nierenberg

27. "It is not just the food we eat that nourishes us; it's all the life-giving elements that surround us." - Cornelia Funke

28. "The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land." - Abraham Lincoln

29. "Access to a fair and sustainable food system is a basic human right." - Jose Graziano da Silva

30. "The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star." - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

31. "Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the international community here has to shoulder a responsibility to bring about sustainable development." - Angela Merkel

32. "No one has ever become poor by giving." - Anne Frank

33. "We need to encourage everyone to become a food activist, to make a difference. Food is political." - Marion Nestle

34. "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." - Carl Sagan

35. "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." - Virginia Woolf

36. "A healthy outside starts from the inside." - Robert Urich

37. "Every time you eat or drink, you are either feeding disease or fighting it." - Heather Morgan

38. "The power of food is really spiritual. It not only brings the whole family together on the same table but also brings the whole world together." - Vikas Khanna

39. "You are what you eat, so eat something sweet." - Unknown

40. "Sustainable agriculture means paying attention to what we eat and how it's grown." - Daniel Imhoff

41. "To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art." - François de La Rochefoucauld

42. "Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." - Albert Einstein

43. "We won't end hunger unless we address the root causes: inequality, discrimination, and unequal access to resources." - Ertharin Cousin

44. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

45. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.

46. "To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival." - Wendell Berry

47. "One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating." - Luciano Pavarotti

48. "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker

49. "The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison." - Ann Wigmore

50. "If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you in need." - B.D. Schiers