Bread Quotes

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  The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Positive

  Interview with Edward W. Desmond, Time magazine, December 04, 1989.

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• If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.

  Herodotus

  Health, Two, Soul

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• Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

  James Beard

  Food, Beard, Culinary

  "The Soup & Bread Cookbook: More Than 100 Seasonal Pairings for Simple, Satisfying Meals". Book by Beatrice Ojakangas, p. 7, 2013.

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  Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Love, Life, Relationship

  The Lathe of Heaven ch. 10 (1971)

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• All sorrows are less with bread.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Food, Cooking Classes, Home Cooking

  "The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, p. 530, 1902.

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• The smell of good bread baking,
  like the sound of lightly flowing water,
  is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Smell, Water

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• Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.

  Daniel Thambyrajah Niles

  Religion, Evangelism, Beggar

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• Who is Jesus to me? Jesus is the Word made Flesh. Jesus is the Bread of Life. Jesus is the Victim offered for our sins on the cross. Jesus is the sacrifice offered at holy Mass for the sins of the world and for mine. Jesus is the Word - to be spoken. Jesus is the Truth - to be told. Jesus is the Way - to be walked. Jesus is the Light - to be lit. Jesus is the Life - to be lived. Jesus is the Love - to be loved

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Light

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• Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

  Matthew Henry

  Heart, Men, Staff

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.629

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  Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

  John C. Maxwell

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Communication

  John C. Maxwell (2013). “Be A People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships”, p.164, David C Cook

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• Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness. When you are eating, eat totally - chew totally, taste totally, smell totally. Touch your bread, feel the texture. Smell the bread, smell the flavor. Chew it, let it dissolve into your being.

  Rajneesh

  Smell, Touching, Texture

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• Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.

  David Richo

  Effort, Sitting, Dough

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Jesus, Religion, Dry

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

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• Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

  Milton Berle

  Food, Order, White

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• If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Heaven, Bakers

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• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Witty, Humorous, Food

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• 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 of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Yoga, Exercise

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• Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

  Pablo Neruda

  Peace, Art, Flour

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• There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Food, Baking Bread, Eating

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• There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

  John Ruskin

  Jesus, Thinking, Expectations

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• Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

  John Steinbeck

  Benefits, Speech, Frailty

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.63, Penguin

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• When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Healthy, Hunger, Appetite

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• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

  John Muir (2001). “The Yosemite”, p.177, Library of Alexandria

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• Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

  Nelson Mandela

  Peace, Nature, Water

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

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• I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.

  Sophocles

  Drinking, Book, Beer

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