Quotes and Sayings About Bread
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I drank my bottle of milk and ate my morsel of bread somewhere on the outskirts, while I circumspectly studied my environment or else fell to meditating on my own harsh lot.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I love a sandwich that you can barely fit in your mouth because there's so much stuff on it. The bread should not be the main thing on a sandwich.
-- Adrianne PalickiSource : "Adrianne Palicki: The Woman of Your Dreams". Interview with Gerilyn Manago, www.menshealth.com. March 29, 2013.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.
-- Al Yankovic -
Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.
-- Alex Faickney OsbornSource : Alex Faickney Osborn (1960). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative problem-solving”
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It is undeniable that every human being is entitled to living space, daily bread, and the protection of the law as a common birthright; these are fundamentals and should not be handed out as an act of charity.
-- Alfred DelpSource : Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”
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My Jesus! What a lovable contrivance this holy Sacrament was - that You would hide under the appearance of bread to make Yourself loved and to be available for a visit by anyone who desires You!
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.
-- Angelus Silesius -
God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble ...
-- Anne Askew -
It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
I tasted the bread and wine of equality.
-- Anzia YezierskaSource : Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”
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Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.
-- Anzia YezierskaSource : Anzia Yezierska (1979). “The open cage: an Anzia Yezierska collection”
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There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.
-- Barbara Coloroso -
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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Eating a slice of white bread is like eating pure sugar.
-- Barry Sears -
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
-- Beatrice WebbSource : Beatrice Webb, Jeanne MacKenzie (1982). “The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892”, Belknap Press
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People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
-- Bel KaufmanSource : "At 100, Still a Teacher, and Quite a Character" by Joseph Berger, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2011.
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Where there's no law, there's no bread.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.
-- Billy BraggSource : Song: Days Like These
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You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.
-- Billy Collins -
String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.
-- Brian Greene -
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If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up.
-- Brigham Young -
I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.
-- Burt Lancaster -
He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
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Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.
-- Carmen McRae -
... where there was hunger there would also be bread.
-- Catherine Marshall