Bread Quotes

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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread. — Victor Hugo
That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves. If we are directed from Washington (heads of an organization) when to sow… — Thomas Jefferson
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They… — Viktor E. Frankl
Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with… — Margaret Atwood
In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like… — Robert Bringhurst
Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread. — Emma Goldman
in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears. — Markus Zusak
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God… — Robert Louis Stevenson
What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts. — James Beard
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back. — Desmond Tutu
Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this… — C.S. Lewis
Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people… — Spencer W. Kimball
He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory… — Mark Haddon
I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea. — Dodie Smith
How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex? — Julia Child
You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted. — T.H. White
Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical… — Jack Kerouac
I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love. — David McCullough
For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the… — Mary Oliver

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