Bread Quotes - Page 18

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

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Laughter, Wine

  "Zorba the Greek". Book by Nikos Kazantzakis, Ch. 23, 1946.

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• Katniss. I remember about the bread.

  Suzanne Collins

  Katniss, Remember, Mockingjay Book

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.230, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.

  Suzanne Collins

  Love, Strong, Kissing

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.195, Scholastic Inc.

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• Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

  Elie Wiesel

  Night, Body, Soup

  Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

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• Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother, your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread

  Mario Puzo

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Kings, Nice, Greed

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed." That sublime description could be reworked to explain each one of these miracles. Was it any different in principle for a broken body to mend at the command of its Maker? Was it far-fetched for the Creator of the universe, who fashioned matter out of nothing, to multiply bread for the crowd? Was it not within the power of the One who called all the molecules into existence to interlock them that they might bear His footsteps?

  Ravi Zacharias

  Wine, Water, Broken

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• I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her. Nothing, however, exits my mouth. How well do we really let ourselves know each other? There's a long quietness until I finally break it open. It reminds me of someone breaking bread and handing it out. In my case, I hand out a question to my friend.

  Markus Zusak

  Girl, Hands, Long

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.126, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about - a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the farther outdoors the better. Or that has been my experience of it. Passages that within walls seem improbable or incredible, outdoors seem merely natural. This is because outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.

  Wendell Berry

  Wall, Book, Thinking

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.311, Counterpoint

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• Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

  Suzanne Collins

  Responsibility, People, Political

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.223, Scholastic Inc.

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• Mom put dense cheddar bread into a bag for a man who said this was his wife's favorite - he'd driven all the way from New Jersey to buy it because today was their anniversary. Several women in the store jabbed their husbands on hearing this. I hung my head - Peter Terris wouldn't cross the street to buy me a Twinkie.

  Joan Bauer

  Mom, Husband, Men

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Thwonk”, p.17, Penguin

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• And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Secret, Germany

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• Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

  Jose Saramago

  Needs, Existence, Justification

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• But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders.

  Daniel Handler

  Country, Europe, Law

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• Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases the fruition which each has of God. For every soul, seeing Him in her own way, doubtless communicates that unique vision to all the rest. That, says an old author, is why the Seraphim in Isaiah's vision are crying "Holy, Holy, Holy" to one another (Isaiah VI, 3). The more we thus share the Heavenly Bread between us, the more we shall all have.

  C. S. Lewis

  Blessed, Unique, Men

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• Therefore bread was created for the glory of Christ. Hunger and thirst were created for the glory of Christ. And fasting was created for the glory of Christ. Which means that bread magnifies Christ in two ways: by being eaten with gratitude for his goodness, and by being forfeited out of hunger for God himself. When we eat, we taste the emblem of our heavenly food—the Bread of Life. And when we fast we say, “I love the Reality above the emblem.” In the heart of the saint both eating and fasting are worship. Both magnify Christ.

  John Piper

  Gratitude, Heart, Mean

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.23, SPCK

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• To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Voice, Handsome, Honey

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.50, Penguin

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• The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

  Bruno Schulz

  Cutting, Years, Knives

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Cake, House, Cottages

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• Never set your stomach for a jelly-bread sandwich until you're sure there's some jelly!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Jelly, Sandwiches, Stomach

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• There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Sunshine, Simple, Long

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.206

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• Think of it like the best mac and cheese you've ever had. No neon yellow Velveeta and bread crumbs. I'm talking gourmet cheddar, the expensive stuff from Vermont that crackles as it melts into the crust on top. Imagine if right before you were about to tear into it, the mac and cheese starts talking to you?

  Alaya Dawn Johnson

  Thinking, Talking, Yellow

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• Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a sixpenny one, which includes bread-and- butter and cake AD LIB., and is cheap at the price, if you haven't had any dinner). It seems to suit everybody, however, which is greatly to its credit.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Cake, Rivers, Credit

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.7, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• [My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned; he didn't make the appointments. He didn't shop for my clothes. He didn't make my breakfast, lunch, or dinner. My mom did all of those things, and nobody ever told her when she did them that it made her a good mother.

  Michael Chabon

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  Michael Chabon (2012). “Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread.

  Charles Bukowski

  he New York Quarterly: NYQ. Issues 35-38 p. 50, 1988.

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