Bread Quotes

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.