Bread Quotes - Page 38

• I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've got to have a picture on the wall.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wall, America, Want

  On visiting Pittsburgh's Polish - Czech area. Quoted in Alistair Cooke The Americans (1980).

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• I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Hate, Legs, Bananas

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• For they truly know their Lord in the breaking of bread, whose heart within them so vehemently burneth, whilst Thou, O blessed Jesus, dost walk and converse with them.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Jesus, Blessed, Heart

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writer" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 372, 1895.

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• [The masses] ... must turn their hopes toward a miracle. In the depths of their despair reason cannot be believed, truth must be false, and lies must be truth. "Higher bread prices," "lower bread prices," "unchanged bread prices" have all failed. The only hope lies in a kind of bread price which is none of these, which nobody has ever seen before, and which belies the evidence of one's reason.

  Peter Drucker

  Lying, Miracle, Despair

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.54, Routledge

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• The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Wind, Names, Two

  "'Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten' ('Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious')". Book by Sigmund Freud, as translated by James Strache, p. 101, 1960.

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• At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.

  Orson Scott Card

  Genre Is, Challenges, Innovation

  Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks (2010). “The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.21, Writer's Digest Books

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• Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.

  Homer

  Air, Toil, Weight

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.412

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• Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.

  Aldo Leopold

  Art, Self, Expression

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.191, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

  Alexander Pope

  Giving, Tree, Liberty

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.40

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• So the poor instead of bread made do with a picture of the bleeding scourged and nailed-up Christ and prayed to that image of their helplessness

  Peter Weiss

  Bleeding, Christ, Poor

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.60, A&C Black

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

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Luxury, Peppers, Lucky

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 28), 1975.

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• Every morning, I eat one fat-free yogurt with a sliced peach when peaches are in season, and one thin slice of whole-wheat bread. The same thing. I don't want to get fat. And I want to keep my fitness.

  Leonard Lauder

  Morning, Yogurt, Peaches

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• I need to put bread on the table man

  Latrell Sprewell

  Men, Needs, Tables

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• Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Angel, Men, Heaven

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• Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

  James Huneker

  Sweat, Lawyer, Anti Semitic

  James Huneker (1920). “Painted Veils”

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• Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the river There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Stars, Men, Rivers

  'Songs of Travel' (1896) 'The Vagabond'

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• There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Country, Air, Wind

  Robert Louis Stevenson, June Skinner Sawyers (2002). “Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson”, Neil Wilson Pub Ltd

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• He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.

  Galen

  Flower, Cake, Two

  "Arabian Society In The Middle Ages". Book by by Edward William Lane, 1883.

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• I was told to stay away from pasta and bread for two weeks. Not eating pasta? That'll kill me. Anything else, but why pasta?

  Tommy Lasorda

  Two, Pasta, Eating

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• The interpretive element of "Lost," the fact that you immediately need as soon as the episode is over to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion, that's the bread and butter of the show.

  Damon Lindelof

  People, Community, Elements

  "Talking 'Lost' with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse". Interview with Jen Chaney, voices.washingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Moon, Errors, Perfect

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.77, 1982.

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• 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.

  Donald Trump

  People, Bankers, Want

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• I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.

  Bhartrhari

  Pride, Fire, Land

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• Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.

  Omar Khayyam

  Lonely, Kings, Book

  Omar Khayyam (1898). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám”

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• Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Love Is, Taste, Salt

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