Bread Quotes
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It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.
Steve Albini Big Black
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I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.
Rose Schneiderman
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A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
Douglas Jerrold
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The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.
David Reuben
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A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches - two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them.
Chic Murray
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Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.
Marie Antoinette
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I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
Jonathan Swift
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In a lot of ways, the way you're making your bread and butter is off people who aren't necessarily who you're writing for.
Will Sheff Okkervil River
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From 1973 to 1982 I ate the exact same lunch everyday . Turkey chili in a bowl made out of bread . Bread bowl George. First you eat the chili then you eat the bowl . There's nothing more satisfying than looking down after lunch and seeing nothing but a table.
George Steinbrenner
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Country to me is living life at its simplest: Learning to appreciate a sliced vine-ripe tomato with a dash of salt, served between two slices of good bread and eaten over the kitchen sink.
Art Smith
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I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.
Rudyard Kipling
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I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race.
Sarah Vowell
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When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.
Lance Henriksen
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I tasted the bread and wine of equality.
Anzia Yezierska
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Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.
Judith Butler
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Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?
Randy Alcorn
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When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level where all awareness of ourselves and what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God.
Oswald Chambers
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Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich.
Sarah Dessen
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He didn't throw the next piece of bread to the ducks as much as hurl it so hard that one of them quacked in surprise and darted away before realizing it was fleeing food.
Courtney Milan
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If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.
Francis Bond Head
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In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin