Bread Quotes

My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Well, I mean, bread, I mean, I've got to have bread too to live.

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

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

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.

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

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

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

One may live without bread, not without roses.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.

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

We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.

They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.

If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

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 making of bread.

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years.

I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know?

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

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.

For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.

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