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Quotes About Bread

Shall then this man go hungry, here in lands Blest by his honor, builded by his hands? Do something for him: let him never be Forgotten: let him have his daily bread: He who has fed us, let him now be fed. Let us remember his tragic lot— Remember, or else be ourselves forgot! —Edwin Markham, "The Forgotten Man" (1932) I
~ Unknown
Ser bendecido es recibir pan para el camino de la vida. Jesús se refería a la liberación de los espíritus malignos como pan de los hijos. A menudo no conocemos el valor de lo que hemos recibido hasta que lo regalamos, como el muchacho de Jn 6:9.
~ Unknown
Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
~ Nelson Mandela
We do not want freedom without bread, nor do we want bread without freedom. Investiture, Clark University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 10, 1993
~ Nelson Mandela
Hay dos panes. Usted se come dos. Yo ninguno. Consumo promedio: un pan por persona.
~ Nicanor Parra
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
~ Nicholas Berdyaev
To the south, past the rocks, in the dunes, stood the carved posts of the graveyard. Bebba lay there, it was said, and other queens. Anglisc and British, including Cwenbarh. It was ill luck to linger by the dead, so they walked-they ran, they skipped, they laughed, their dresses kilted up like they were children, bags of bread and beer bouncing, noses streaming-north, to the island.
~ Nicola Griffith
You can't smell a hug. You can't hear a cuddle. But if you could, I reckon it would smell and sound of warm bread-and-butter pudding.
~ Nigel Slater
The best sorts of leftover meals are those that are glorified picnics. Alongside the cold meats, you need a good purchased pâté en croûte—one made with veal or duck would be just the thing. Also put on the table some salad and bread.
~ Nigella Lawson
Hey you, feasting at the table on the shore,with bread on your plate, clothes on your body. Someone from the water beckons you, beating the heavy tide with his exhausted hands... --translated by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould
~ Unknown
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace.
~ Norman Borlaug
I don't trust it. Freedom is dangerous, Cory, but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Ta [Jumal] on meie sees, aga meie oleme tema sees. Ta tegutseb pimesi, aga teab, mida teeb. Ta on nagu leib - igaüks saab kääru ja maitseb seda omal kombel, aga ükski leivakäär ei sisalda tervet leiba.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Nothing was so hard for me to understand, so baffling, and at the same time so filled with menacing overtones as the commonplace remark, "Human beings work to earn their bread, for if they don't eat, they die.
~ Osamu Dazai
There's a scholar, he went on, a creature who earns his bread by footnoting a dead genius or sniping at a living one.
~ Osamu Dazai
A heroic era has opened in the life of the word. The word is flesh and bread. It shares the fate of bread and flesh: suffering. People are hungry. The state is even hungrier. But there is something hungrier yet: time.
~ Osip Mandelstam
It is actually more important to be broken bread and poured-out wine in the area of intercession than in our personal contact with others. The power of imagination is what God gives a saint so that he can go beyond himself and be firmly placed into relationships he never before experienced.
~ Oswald Chambers
The Bible is the Bread of Life, and it never becomes stale.
~ Unknown
They'd eaten the nooning over an hour before. Fried catfish and hot bread. Heaven. And Miss Althea sitting across from him at the table, smiling and talking. Heaven again.
~ Unknown
How do you kill a vampire? "Silver bullets?" "That's werewolves." "Cloves of garlic?" "That's French bread.
~ Parnell Hall
Stories don't need to be new to bring you joy. Some stories are like familiar friends. Some are dependable as bread.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
A piece of sun that never left her. It was a bite of bread. A flower in her heart.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
only a fool claims there is no such thing as love. When you see two young ones staring at each other with dewy eyes, there it is. So thick you can spread it on your bread and eat it.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Jesus Lord, welcome thou me In form of bread as I see thee Jesus, for thy holy name, Shield me today from sin and shame.
~ Unknown