Bread Quotes

I urge you with all the strength of my soul to approach the Eucharistic Table as often as possible. Feed on this Bread of the Angels from which you will draw the strength to fight inner struggles.

God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble.

Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.

It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.

Do you want me to call you Celery Stick instead of Cupcake or Honey-Pie? It just doesn’t inspire the same warm and fuzzy feelings.

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 am God's wheat and shall be ground by their teeth so that I may become Christ's pure bread.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

What a piece of bread looks like depends on whether you are hungry or not.

If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

Beneatha: You didn't tell us what Alaiyo means... for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something... ... Asagai: It means... it means One for Whom Bread--Food--Is Not Enough.

My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.

We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

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.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

All sorrows are less with bread.

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.

A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.

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.

Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.

Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me.

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

The question of bread for myself is a material question; but the question of bread for my neighbour, for everybody, is a spiritual and a religious question.

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.

We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.

I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.