Bread Quotes

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All sorrows are less with bread. — Miguel de Cervantes
You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I… — Oscar Wilde
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… — M.F.K. Fisher
[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. — James Joyce
Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white… — Anne Carson
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization… — Edward Abbey
Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each… — Derek Walcott
Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered? — Haruki Murakami
A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of men. It is the bread of the spirit, it clotheth the words with meaning, it… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
MUSIC I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you,… — Conrad Aiken
The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my… — Flann O'Brien
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. — Barbara Kingsolver
Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you… — Euripides
So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so ready the other… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices… — Lewis Carroll
When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out… — Barbara Kingsolver
Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced… — Paul Rudnick
I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought… — William Saroyan
Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in… — Studs Terkel

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