Bread Quotes

Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say.

There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.

No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light.

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner.

Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.

The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.

A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches - two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them.

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.

The path to obesity is paved with bacon and white bread; the way to skinny is built on apples and Ezekiel.

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

The earth is bread we take and eat.

Eating a slice of white bread is like eating pure sugar.

After eating the world's bread, we wake each morning to remember: We are still hungry. Seek a better loaf. Eat, and never die. Taste, savor, and be filled forever.

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable.

It may be healthier to eat beer and franks with cheer and thanks, than to eat sprouts and bread with doubts and dread.

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of bread?

I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.

Words are the only bread we can really share.

For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the pope.

He is rich enough who does not want bread.

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.

O You Who are hidden, body, soul and divinity, Under the fragile form of bread, You are my life from Whom springs an abundance of graces; And, for me, You surpass the delights of Heaven.

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?

You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.

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.

Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at the door! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread taste sour.

Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.

Where there's no law, there's no bread.

I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

I tasted the bread and wine of equality.

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.

How to get rich ... whenever I meet people, that's usually what they want to know from me. You ask a banker how he makes bread. You ask a billionaire how he makes money.

I made mistakes, I made some bread. I even made a way for them to get ahead.

Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.

If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that person should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul.