Bread Quotes - Page 2

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

  Tyra Banks

  Positive, Food, Junk

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• There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Relationship, Appreciation

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• Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad, but bread is king.

  Louis Bromfield

  Country, Kings, Food

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• It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Thinking, Meals, Soup

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• I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you dont know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch.

  Emily Dickinson

  Food, Grace, Mixing

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.116, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.

  Robert Orben

  Food, Thinking, Vegetables

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• What hymns are sung.
  What praises said.
  For homemade miracles of bread?

  Louis Untermeyer

  Hymns, Miracle, Praise

  Louis Untermeyer (1932). “Food and Drink”

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• For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.

  Steve Albini

  Air, Coke, Cheese

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• But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no. I can't even have one piece, because when I start, I don't stop.

  Daniela Pestova

  Pieces, Different, One Piece

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• The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Gratitude, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.403, Harvard University Press

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• For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

  Khalil Gibran

  Food, Humor, Men

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

  Julia Child

  Food, Taste, Baking Bread

  "How to Avoid TV Dinners While Watching TV" by Joan Barthel, The New York Times Magazine, p. 34, August 7, 1966.

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• If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

  Edward Bellamy

  Life, Firsts, Recreation

  Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.99, VM eBooks

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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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• A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

  Georges Bernanos

  Men, Needs, Poverty

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.62, Da Capo Press

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• Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Sides

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.43, 谷月社

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

  Anne Askew

  God, Adversity, Water

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• 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.

  Jose Marti

  Life Lesson, Bread Of Life, Doors

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Design, Half

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• Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

  Richard Wright

  Integrity, Men, Self

  Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.366, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Beauty, Soul

  "The Sayings of D. H. Lawrence".

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• I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

  Jesse Jackson

  Long Ago, Water, Sides

  1984 Addressing black voters, NewYork, 30 Jan.

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• The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.

  Charlie Sheen

  News, Paramedics, Wanted

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• A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wine, Jugs, Great Wine

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