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One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.

Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

Parents do not, indeed, live by bread alone. We feast daily on banquets of our own words.

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

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!

People are not hungry just for bread, they are hungry for love.

People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough thought into their costumes a wiseman stays ashore when pointed fins read like italian subtitles the end is near (...) the beginning

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.

Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate.

She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair.

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ.

Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread

Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.

Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.

Staying where you now are, you must perish; coming to Christ, you can but perish; coming to Christ, no one ever did perish; while you sit still and starve, there is bread enough and to spare in your Father's house. Will you return?

So the poor instead of bread made do with a picture of the bleeding scourged and nailed-up Christ and prayed to that image of their helplessness

Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.

String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.

The Army was my bread and butter.

Success in TV-showmaking is just a matter of being authentic and doing the best you can, and you hope that people watch it and like it. For us [showmakers], we know where our bread is buttered, and we live by the written word of the critic. That's how shows build a critical mass on cable.

That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!

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.

Talkers expand like bread dough.

The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and they get to participate in the comedy.

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.

The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.

The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word

The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and wine, and the sugar go into the Supper of the lamb because we do. It is our love that brings the city home. It is I grant you, an incautious and extravagant hope. But only outlandish hopes can make themselves at home.

The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality! The poor, the slave, and the humble can eat the Lord.

The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.

The Eucharist began at Bethlehem in Mary's arms. It was she who brought to humanity the Bread for which it was famishing, and which alone can nourish it. She it was who took care of that Bread for us. It was she who nourished the Lamb whose life-giving Flesh we feed upon

The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material

The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces.

The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.

The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.