Bread Quotes
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There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.
Rumi
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Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.
Marianne Williamson
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At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure.
Seth Godin
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Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.
Miguel de Cervantes
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We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.
Sherman Alexie
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...so I took it out with me into the garden, because the dullest book takes on a certain saving grace if read out of doors, just as bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eaten under a tree.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
John Ruskin
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Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Talkers expand like bread dough.
Helen Gurley Brown
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I can judge a restaurant by its bread: it winds me up that a lot of places buy pre-packed ones in and don't bother putting them in the oven to crisp them up again. And you shouldn't put bread on a side-plate: it needs to be pushed back into the centre of the table.
Paul Hollywood
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Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.
William Macneile Dixon
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My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain.
Brigham Young
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
Victor Hugo
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I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.
Karl Lagerfeld
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If we exchange bombs for bread there will be less reason for wanting to kill us. I just want to have the conversation.
Tom Shadyac
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Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?
John Fiske
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Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.
Diane Ackerman
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Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?
Merle Haggard
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French women don't eat Wonder Bread.
Mireille Guiliano
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Hope—you think of hope as a bright thing, a strong thing, sustaining. But it’s not. It’s the opposite. It’s simply this: lumps of stale bread stuck down your shirt. Stale gray bread eked out with ground fish bones, which you won’t eat because you’re going to give it away, and maybe you’ll get a message through to your friend.
Elizabeth Wein
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If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?
Brigham Young
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God is great and God is good, And we thank Him for this food. By His hand may we be led, Give us Lord or daily bread.
Betty MacDonald