Bread famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I drank my bottle of milk and ate my morsel of bread somewhere on the outskirts, while I circumspectly studied my environment or else fell to meditating on my own harsh lot.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I love a sandwich that you can barely fit in your mouth because there's so much stuff on it. The bread should not be the main thing on a sandwich.
-- Adrianne Palicki -
The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.
-- Al Yankovic -
Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
It is undeniable that every human being is entitled to living space, daily bread, and the protection of the law as a common birthright; these are fundamentals and should not be handed out as an act of charity.
-- Alfred Delp -
My Jesus! What a lovable contrivance this holy Sacrament was - that You would hide under the appearance of bread to make Yourself loved and to be available for a visit by anyone who desires You!
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.
-- Angelus Silesius -
God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble ...
-- Anne Askew -
It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.
-- Anzia Yezierska -
There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.
-- Barbara Coloroso -
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Eating a slice of white bread is like eating pure sugar.
-- Barry Sears -
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
-- Beatrice Webb -
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
-- Bel Kaufman -
Where there's no law, there's no bread.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.
-- Billy Bragg -
You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.
-- Billy Collins -
String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.
-- Brian Greene -
If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up.
-- Brigham Young -
I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.
-- Burt Lancaster -
He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.
-- Carmen McRae -
... where there was hunger there would also be bread.
-- Catherine Marshall -
I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread
-- Charles Bukowski -
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.
-- Charles Horton Cooley -
The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking!
-- Chip Ingram -
I love eating sushi and eating raw and clean - no pasta and bread. Low carbs is what works for me.
-- Chrissy Teigen -
The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.
-- Clive James -
You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.
-- Compton Mackenzie -
Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.
-- Conrad Aiken -
This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.
-- Cyprian -
Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.
-- Daniel Craig -
Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.
-- Daniel Thambyrajah Niles -
But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no. I can't even have one piece, because when I start, I don't stop.
-- Daniela Pestova -
Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME!
-- Dave Niehaus -
Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.
-- David Gemmell -
If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.
-- David Ricardo -
Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.
-- David Richo -
A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.
-- Desiderius Erasmus -
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.
-- Don King -
We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.
-- Dorothy Day -
Man lives by bread alone, when there is no bread.
-- Douglas McGregor -
A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
-- Edward Bellamy -
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
-- Edward Fitzgerald -
I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.
-- Elizabeth Berg -
I don't eat bread.' Is she pouting? It's hard to tell. She's had a lot of chemicals injected into her face.
-- Elizabeth Scott -
The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.
-- Ellen G. White -
Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!
-- Emily Post -
Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.
-- Emma Goldman -
I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta.
-- Emma Roberts -
The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.
-- Enid Bagnold -
Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism.
-- Enver Hoxha -
Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.
-- Eric Berne -
Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.
-- Eric Gill -
A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.
-- Fanny Fern -
If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.
-- Francis Bond Head -
Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.
-- François-René de Chateaubriand -
While reason is puzzling itself about mystery, faith is turning it to daily bread, and feeding on it thankfully in her heart of hearts.
-- Frederic Dan Huntington -
I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread.
-- Gareth Gates -
I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.
-- Gene Kelly -
When I go into a restaurant, the waitress who brings me my meal, the cook in the back who prepared it, the delivery men, the wholesalers, the workers in the food-processing factories, the butchers, the farmers, the ranchers, and everyone else in the economic food chain are all being used by God to “give me this day my daily bread.â€
-- Gene Veith -
In a heartbeat, a thousand voices took up the chant. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone. "Bread." they clamored. "Bread, Bread!
-- George R. R. Martin -
After bread, education is the first need of the people.
-- Georges Danton -
I don't see what difference it makes what side it's [your bread] buttered on. I always eat both sides.
-- Gracie Allen -
You've buttered your bread, now sleep in it.
-- Gracie Allen -
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
-- Haile Selassie -
No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.
-- Hank Ketcham -
I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping.
-- Helen Fielding -
I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white bread, butter, tomato catsup and big fat french fries. It's delicious. Here, you order a creme caramel and the waiter says, 'You know, that contains dairy.
-- Helen Fielding -
God doesn't give us just enough. God gives us more than enough: more bread and fish than we can eat, more love than we dared to ask for.
-- Henri Nouwen -
You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.
-- Holly Near -
For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.
-- Honore de Balzac -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up. My idea was: Enjoy baking, sell your bread, people like it, sell more. Keep the bakery going because you're making good food and people are happy.
-- Ian MacKaye -
Who loves — lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread.
-- Irving Stone -
Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can’t make anything.
-- Italo Calvino -
As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat.
-- Ivan Pavlov -
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.
-- Ivan Pavlov -
If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.
-- Jacques Pepin -
Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.
-- James Beard -
Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.
-- James Huneker -
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
-- James Rowland Angell -
In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin