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Quotes About Bread

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.
~ Khalil Gibran
A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.
~ Pablo Neruda
Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
~ Victor Hugo
Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.
~ Elmer Rice
We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.
~ Theodor Herzl
After the substance of the creatures, look, what they were before the consecration, even the very same do they remain still. Bread and wine they were before, in the which kind they being now consecrated appear still to remain.
~ Thomas Becon
Keep your distance, boss! Don't make men too bold, don't go telling them we're all equal, we've got the same rights,, or they'll go straight and trample on YOUR rights; they'll steal your bread and leave you to die of hunger. Keep your distance, boss, by all the good things I wish you!
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Nobody lay awake at night wondering if the wheat they'd raised was truly happy and fulfilled being made into bread.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If you can master peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for Stew, I'd be really impressed. "Peanut butter sticks to the bread and rips it apart. It's stupid.
~ Larissa Ione
I was told to stay away from pasta and bread for two weeks. Not eating pasta? That'll kill me. Anything else, but why pasta?
~ lasorda tommy ii
The rhythm now came automatically, just like Mavis had said it would. And her thoughts could drift elsewhere as she worked. There was something special about baking bread, all right.
~ Lauraine Snelling
Their supplies consisted mainly of bread and wine, enough to last them the summer
~ Laurence Bergreen
The Ophite Christians believed that ingesting the living substances of reproduction was considered more 'spiritual' than ingesting the dead body of the god, even in the transmuted form of bread and wine, though the color symbolism was the same.
~ Laurence Galian
Then she took a piece of bread from the loaf in the bread box, spread it with butter and sprinkled it thickly with sugar, and set it in the oven until the sugar had melted to a bubbling, golden caramel.
~ Celeste Ng
and Russell told me that he comes down to Philly a lot to pick up prosciutto bread. That's bread made with prosciutto and mozzarella baked in it. You
~ Charles Brandt
Russell had not been coming to Philly just for prosciutto bread and sweet and hot sausage from Roselli's, not even extra-hot sausage. He had business interests with Angelo Bruno, their own kind of business. And
~ Charles Brandt
By all means give us as much truth as possible, even though the dose is ever so bitter... Truth, man! truth is the only true poetry, if the business of poetry is to move the feelings... [B]read and meat... are facts... Bread and truth are all man wants; and a loaf is only an eatable lump of truth fitted for the body, as truth is the invisible, but no less substantial, bread of the spirit.
~ John Sterling
He sopped other dies of bread in the gravy and ate piece after piece of kidney.
~ James Joyce
French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.
~ Mireille Guiliano
French women don't eat Wonder Bread.
~ Mireille Guiliano
Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.
~ Jeremy Jackson
The toaster (lacking real bread) would pretend to make two crispy slices of toast. Or, if the day seemed special in some way, it would toast an imaginary English muffin.
~ Thomas M. Disch
The act of eating the bread and drinking the wine are a powerful symbol of finding satisfaction in Christ.
~ Tim Chester