13 Movie Quotes about Famine (+ Sound Clips)

Memorable quotes about famine, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Can you not see that I have bigger problems? Winter is almost here and I have an entire village to feed!

Gerard Butler as Stoick The Vast in How to Train Your Dragon

2 Men facing famine, naught left but beans. -Ahem. Bean, you mean.

Quote from Fun and Fancy Free

3 Mentally incompetent, like animals after a long famine.

Vincent Price as Dr. Robert Morgan in The Last Man on Earth (1964)

4 Well, you're young and impressionable. You know, there's lots worse things than movies. There's politicians and wars and forest fires, and famine and plague... sickness, pain, warts, politicians...

Quote from Last Action Hero

5 They say it is a gift of the gods. -It has the power to heal, bring peace and rid the land of plague and famine.

Tim Turner as Jason in Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

6 Famine, pestilence, war, disease, and death. They rule this world.

Vincent Price as Prince Prospero in The Masque of the Red Death

7 The horseman on the pale horse is pestilence. He follows the wars.

Boris Karloff as General Pherides in Isle of the Dead (1945)

8 Heavens to mint sauce! He's famished. Hungry even.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

9 I've finally understood why they have sent me this pestilence. There was famine, there were too many mouths, so the gods made less mouths.

Christopher Plummer as Commodus in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

10 Famine, hunger, not even massacres could stop them.

Quote from The Big Trail (1930)