Bread Quotes - Page 11

• The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe - but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Skulls, Soul

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.176, Penguin

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• Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Soul, Body

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• In writing with detail, you are turning to face the world. It is a deeply political act, because you are not staying in the heat of your own emotions. You are offering up some good solid bread for the hungry.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Offering, Political

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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• If I can only live to see the American union firmly fixed, and free governments well established in our western world, and can leave to my children but a crust of bread and liberty, I shall die satisfied.

  George Mason

  Children, Government, Liberty

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• From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.

  Rita Hayworth

  Heart, Dancing, Twelve

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• Let it be enough for you to have bread and live virtuously and poorly like Christ, as I do here. I live meanly and don't bother about life or honor ... and I live with the greatest toil and a thousand worries. It is now about 15 years since I had a happy hour.

  Michelangelo

  Years, Worry, Honor

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• Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment of freedom; it has had to struggle and fight to preserve it. Freedom is not an heirloom or an antique; it is a life that must fight against the corrosive powers of death and nourish itself on the daily bread of goodness and virtue.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Struggle, Fighting, America

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• I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, What! all this, and Christ too?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessing, Hands, Water

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.180, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Baby, Blood, Voice

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• From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat? Who made the bread? Where did it come from? You are in relationship with all who brought it to the table. We are least separate and most in common when we eat and drink.

  Thomas Merton

  Pieces, World, Mouths

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• Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

  Ani DiFranco

  Bread And Butter, Shows

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• Margaret Meade is always running around saying that marijuana's just like bread and water! Well, bread and water are poison, and marijuana's a poison. Now, if you like poison, why shouldn't you have it? But don't try to pretend that it's innocuous.

  James Purdy

  Running, Marijuana, Water

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Lava bread makes you passionate.

  Anne Carson

  Passionate, Lava

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.

  Brian Blessed

  Fire, Radio, Wonderful

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• Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.

  Bernie Sanders

  Struggle, Kids, College

  FaceBook post by Bernie Sanders from Jun 24, 2015

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• Philosophy bakes no bread

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy

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• The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.

  Tobias Smollett

  Ashes, London, Taste

  Tobias Smollett (1808). “The expedition of Humphry Clinker. By the author of Roderic Random”, p.143

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• Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Hot, Tables, Biscuits

  Sarah Josepha Hale (2012). “Early American Cookery: "The Good Housekeeper," 1841”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• Among those kinds of food which the good housekeeper should scrupulously banish from her table, is that of hot leavened bread....I believe it more often lays the foundation of diseases of the stomach, than any other kind of nourishment, used among us.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Believe, Foundation, Hot

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• Without bread all is misery.

  William Cobbett

  Misery

  William Cobbett (1824). “Cottage Economy: Containing Information Relative to the Brewing of Beer, Making of Bread, Keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry and Rabbits, and Relative to Other Matters Deemed Useful in the Conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family: To which are Added, Instructions Relative to the Selecting, the Cutting and the Bleaching of the Plants of English Grass and Grain, for the Purpose of Making Hats and Bonnets”, p.43

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• Under the Sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the intelligent, nor success to the skillful, but time and chance govern all. For man does not know his time.

  Solomon

  Wise, Strong, Intelligent

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• Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.

  Randy Alcorn

  Men, Self, Grace

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• He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in Him.

  John Flavel

  Healing, Water, Soul

  John Flavel (1770). “The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ...”, p.322

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• Bread of Life? Jesus lived up to the title. But an unopened loaf does a person no good. Have you received the bread? Have you received God's forgiveness?

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Bread Of Life, Titles

  Max Lucado (2011). “Live Loved: Experiencing God's Presence in Everyday Life”, p.96, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• President Obama's recommended reduction in the tax deduction for charitable giving reflects his fundamental belief that only the government can or should help the poor. He wants to keep the impoverished directly dependent on the government - and the Democratic Party - for their daily bread.

  Dick Morris

  Party, Government, Giving

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