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Quotes About Bread

You came to my life with what you were bringing, made of light and bread and shadow I expected you, and Like this I need you, Like this I love you, and to those who want to hear tomorrow that which I will not tell them, let them read it here, and let them back off today because it is early for these arguments.
~ Pablo Neruda
Laugh at the night, at the day, at the moon, laugh at the twisted streets of the island, laugh at this clumsy boy who loves you, but when I open my eyes and close them, when my steps go, when my steps return, deny me bread, air, light, spring, but never your laughter for I would die.
~ Pablo Neruda
Toglimi il pane, se vuoi, toglimi l'aria, ma non togliermi il tuo sorriso.
~ Pablo Neruda
Nunca solo, contigo, tierra Contigo el mar, la vida, cuanto soy, cuanto doy y cuanto canto, esta materia amor, la tierra, el mar, el pan, la vida
~ Pablo Neruda
Ahora me parece que no está solo el hombre. En sus manos ha elaborado como si fuera un duro pan, la esperanza, la terrestre esperanza.
~ Pablo Neruda
If the color yellow runs out with what will we make bread?
~ Pablo Neruda
I would rather dip my bread in salt and look at the sun than dip it in butter and look at my feet.
~ Panaït Istrati
That's fresh bread. I caught flounder off the rocks early this morning, so I stuffed them with crabmeat and shrimp. There's a fresh spinach salad plus sautéed zucchini and shallots.
~ Pat Conroy
A lamplit table spread Old hospitality Of cheese and wine and bread. - 1993 V Remembering Evia
~ Wendell Berry
Só que nossa terra não era como esta. Só de caminhar por ela a gente sentia uma coisa. Uma espécie de fecundidade tranquila e violenta que satisfazia até a fome de pão quase.
~ William Faulkner
Looking down from the heights of Maslow's pyramid, it seems inconceivable to us that someone could actually prefer bread to freedom.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Sometimes these spirits have been more real to me than people, more real than God. They fill silence with their weight, dense and warm, like bread dough rising under cloth.
~ Christina Baker Kline
Mother Teresa once said: When Jesus came into the world, He loved it so much that He gave His life for it. He wanted to satisfy our hunger for God. And what did He do? He made Himself the Bread of Life. He became small, fragile, and defenseless for us. Bits of bread can be so small that even a baby can chew it. He became the Bread of Life to satisfy our hunger for God, our hunger for love.' After
~ Heidi Baker
T)here was no missing the enormous irony of the fact that from Russia--"a country where her poems were needed, like bread, she had ended up in a country where nobody needed her or anyone else's poems. Even Russian people in emigration ceased to need them," Tsvetaeva said, "And that made Russian poets miserable.
~ Helen Rappaport
To share in this sacred meal was so deeply felt to be the essential expression of membership of the society that fragments of the broken bread were taken round to any who were absent through illness or imprisonment.
~ Henry Chadwick
Don't steal the rolls!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
~ Leonid Andreyev
The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
~ John Ruskin
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot
We must act together, as a united people... For the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
~ Patricia Young
If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!
~ Emma Goldman
Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.
~ James Russell Lowell
Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.
~ William Tyndale
I bake bread nearly every day; I use Jim Lahey's no-knead method and leave it to rise overnight.
~ Ruth Reichl