Harry Hopkins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Hunger is not debatable.
-- Harry Hopkins

#Food #Hunger
The things they have actually accomplished all over America should be an inspiration to every reasonable person and an everlasting answer to all the grievous insults that have been heaped on the heads of the unemployed.
-- Harry Hopkins

#Inspiration #America #Answers
Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime... They don't drink any more than the rest of us, they don't lie any more, they're no lazier than the rest of us.... An eighth or a tenth of the earning population does not change its character which has been generations in the molding, or, if such a change actually occurs, we can scarcely charge it up to personal sin.
-- Harry Hopkins

#Lying #Character #Population
Communities now find themselves in possession of improvements [resulting from the WPA] which even in 1929 they would have thought themselves presumptuous to dream of... [but] everywhere there had been an overhauling of the word presumptuous. We are beginning to wonder if it is not presumptuous to take for granted that some people should have much, and some should have nothing; that some people are less important than others and should die earlier; that the children of the comfortable should be taller and fatter, as a matter of right, than the other children of the poor.
-- Harry Hopkins

#Dream #Children #People
Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.
-- Harry Hopkins

#Taxes
People don't eat in the long run - they eat every day.
-- Harry Hopkins

#Running #Long #People
I thank God that I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure sometimes is the first step to success and where success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.
-- Harry Hopkins

#Dream #Country #Priorities

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.
Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.
Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we arenâ€™t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
... I feel far more hunger pangs when I am denied mental nourishment than I do at the loss of meals.
We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

Harry Hopkins famous quotes

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