Bread Quotes · Page 17

Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.

— Louisa May Alcott

They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.

— Mark Twain

When I blow the head off a glass of Guinness or eat a slice of white bread, there are so many bubbles!

— Tom Noddy

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

— Barbara Kingsolver

By and large, we're a bread-eating culture. People like sandwiches. We don't really over-think that one.

— Fred DeLuca

Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.

— George Carlin

At the end of the day, I know what my bread and butter is and how I can be effective.

— Jahlil Okafor

I am God's wheat and shall be ground by their teeth so that I may become Christ's pure bread.

— Ignatius of Antioch

Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread…

— Horace Mann

I rarely eat red meat and only occasionally eat fish. Plant based foods are my main source of nutrition along with nuts,…

— Gary Player

A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime!…

— Leonardo Sciascia

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the…

— Anatole France

“He . . . fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make…

— Robert J. Morgan

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political, or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news…

— Desmond Tutu

Once I saw a duck walking down the street so I went into Subway and ordered two pieces of bread, and they…

— Mitch Hedberg

Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread…

— William Alcott

In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire…

— Cecil Rhodes

One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the…

— Suzanne Collins

“Bubbles enters with a plate overflowing with rugelach. The three of us fall silent as we indulge in the small snail-shaped pastries…

— Stacey Ballis

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and…

— Victor Hugo

Unlike leftover pasta, leftover risotto is viewed by Italians as a gift. Cooks shape it into balls or stuff it with a…

— Samin Nosrat

God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for…

— Mother Teresa

We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.

— Sherman Alexie

“I couldn't toast a piece of bread with the amount of heat they were putting on you”

— Jessica Lange

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves…

— Leo Tolstoy

Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

— Anonymous

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

— Jesus Christ

Perfect sandwich? Two slices of white bread, mustard, mayo and a platinum American Express card.

— Chris Pratt

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.

— Charles Horton Cooley

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

— John Stuart Mill

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down…

— Dante Alighieri

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

— Marie Dressler

We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.

— John Owen

Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.

— Thomas F. Wilson

The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

— Meg Wolitzer

Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.

— Kenneth Tynan

It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson