Bread Quotes

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  The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Positive

  Interview with Edward W. Desmond, Time magazine, December 04, 1989.

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  Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Love, Life, Relationship

  The Lathe of Heaven ch. 10 (1971)

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• All sorrows are less with bread.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Food, Cooking Classes, Home Cooking

  "The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, p. 530, 1902.

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• Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

  James Beard

  Food, Beard, Culinary

  "The Soup & Bread Cookbook: More Than 100 Seasonal Pairings for Simple, Satisfying Meals". Book by Beatrice Ojakangas, p. 7, 2013.

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• The smell of good bread baking,
  like the sound of lightly flowing water,
  is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Smell, Water

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

  Matthew Henry

  Heart, Men, Staff

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.629

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  Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

  John C. Maxwell

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Communication

  John C. Maxwell (2013). “Be A People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships”, p.164, David C Cook

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• Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness. When you are eating, eat totally - chew totally, taste totally, smell totally. Touch your bread, feel the texture. Smell the bread, smell the flavor. Chew it, let it dissolve into your being.

  Rajneesh

  Smell, Touching, Texture

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• There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Food, Baking Bread, Eating

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• If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Heaven, Bakers

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• Hope is the poor man's bread.

  George Herbert

  Life, Hope, Food

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.306

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

  Gavin MacLeod

  Thank You, Jobs, Thank God

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• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

  John Muir (2001). “The Yosemite”, p.177, Library of Alexandria

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• The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.

  Rumi

  Perspective, Looks, Hungry

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

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Differences

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• God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking!

  Chip Ingram

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• 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.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Yoga, Exercise, Meditation

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... 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.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Yoga, Exercise

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  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.

  John Muir

  Life, Strength, Beauty

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America

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• Bread is the staff of life.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Eating, Staff

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, Tale of a Tub, 1922.

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• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Witty, Humorous, Food

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

  Pearl S. Buck

  Hope, Peace, Stills

  "To My Daughters, With Love (To the Young)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Poverty, Obliged

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.207

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• 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.

  James A. Baldwin

  Respect, Thinking, Effort

  "Eighty-Five from the Archive: James Baldwin" by Erin Overbey, www.newyorker.com. February 11, 2010.

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  Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Food, Zucchini

  Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

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