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Quotes About Bread

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread, and meat.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.
~ Steven Rodney McQueen
Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
~ Rand Paul
On July 29, six days after I had arrived in Paris, Fin and I moved into the new lodgings on the top floor of the hotel next door, where, beyond the pigeons who occupied the window ledge, you could see the turrets of Notre Dame. The concierge told us not to feed the birds, but we gave them our stale bread just the same, and so our flock became a feathered multitude, pushing and shoving one another behind the cracked glass. In the afternoons the light seemed to have feathers in it.
~ Rebecca Stott
A city that had learned to make good bread had learned to make good cake also. A city that built itself up by good sense and industry had formed a powerful secondary intention of elegance.
~ Rebecca West
Carrying a plate on which she'd placed a sandwich made with burlap bread, she looked over my shoulder.
~ Julia Glass
My father laughed. The magic of Summer, he said, is unlike anything else. Imagine life, fertility, laughter, joy, ripening fruits and the smell of fresh bread baking in the morning. That is Summer magic. Forever Frost (Frost Series 2)
~ Kailin Gow
Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.
~ Johannes Kepler
The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.
~ John Masefield
Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
~ John Stuart Mill
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.
~ Randy Alcorn
Saw a man in Whole Foods yelling at his son, What are you doing?! You know I don't eat bread!! Is there such a thing as health food abuse?
~ Bob Saget
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
~ George Herbert
May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth
~ Susan B. Anthony
There is enough dough in the world to make bread for us all to eat together.
~ Habeeb Akande
It was one of those mornings when a man could face the day only after warming himself with a mug of thick coffee beaded with steam, a good thick crust of bread, and a bowl of bean soup.
~ Richard Gehman
In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
~ Pope John Paul II
Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.
~ Carmen McRae
What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.
~ Rose Schneiderman
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
~ Anatole France
In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.
~ Lech Walesa
out of great Russia came three dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die for: Bread, Peace, Land.
~ Carl Sandburg