Bread Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Yoga, Exercise, Meditation

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Majority, Soil

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

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• If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.

  Francis Bond Head

  Disputes, Quarrels, Ifs

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• I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

  Karen Morley

  Song, Kings, Unions

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• At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?

  Merle Haggard

  Age, Half, Knows

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• I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.

  Franco Nero

  Crazy, Drinking, Wine

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• How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.

  Olga Korbut

  Sports, Gymnastics, People

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• Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Men, Individuality

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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• Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

  Corita Kent

  Children, Artist, Creating

  Corita Kent, Jan Steward (2008). “Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

  Holly Near

  Yeast, Ifs

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• There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Wine, Drunk

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.388, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.

  Burt Lancaster

  Coffee, Judging, Restaurants

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• Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.

  William Tyndale

  Blood, Body, Christ

  William Tyndale, John Frith, Thomas Russell (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: The works of Tyndale, (continued:) An answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue ; An exposition upon the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of Matthew ; An exposition upon the 1st epistle of St. John ; A pathway into the Holy Scripture ; The sacrament of baptism, and the sacrament of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ”, p.550

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• A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

  Edward Fitzgerald

  Book, Wine, Jugs

  The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 4th ed., st. 11 (1879).

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• In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

  Anatole France

  Peace, Anger, Sleep

  "The Red Lily". Book by Anatole France, 1894.

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• Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

  Anatole France

  Ignorance, Errors, Water

  "Pierre Noziere". Book by Anatole France, 1899.

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• Eaten bread is forgotten.

  Thomas Fuller

  Thankfulness, Forgotten

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• And she hates being managed - that is not the word I want. What is it, Maturin?' 'Manipulated.' 'Exactly. She is a dutiful girl - a great sense of duty: I think it rather stupid, but there it is - but still she finds the way her mother has been arranging and pushing and managing and angling in all this perfectly odious. You two must have had hogsheads of that grocer's claret forced down your throats. Perfectly odious: and she is obstinate - strong, if you like - under that bread-and-butter way of hers. It will take a great deal to move her; much more than the excitement of a ball.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Girl, Mother, Strong

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• To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Hope, Peace, Stills

  "To My Daughters, With Love (To the Young)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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  Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

  John Muir

  Life, Strength, Beauty

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America

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  Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Food, Zucchini

  Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

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• Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Differences

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• We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spiritual and emotional feelings. It might taste good or clever, but in the long run, it's not going to do anything for you.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Running, Spiritual

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• To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

  James A. Baldwin

  Respect, Thinking, Effort

  "Eighty-Five from the Archive: James Baldwin" by Erin Overbey, www.newyorker.com. February 11, 2010.

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• We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Long, Soul, Taste

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