Best 457 quotes in «bread quotes» category

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

The Army was my bread and butter.

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

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

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

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

The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.

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.

The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.

The interpretive element of "Lost," the fact that you immediately need as soon as the episode is over to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion, that's the bread and butter of the show.

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

The obligation to earn one's bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor can it attain social peace.

The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right is systematically denied, in which economic policies do not allow workers to reach satisfactory levels of employment, cannot be justified from an ethical point of view, nor can that society attain social peace.

The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but that they should know God and serve Him with earnestness and devotion.

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.

The Press is not our daily bread but our daily sugar pill.

The question of bread for myself is a material question; but the question of bread for my neighbour, for everybody, is a spiritual and a religious question.

The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble.

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

There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved.

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external assault, but it remains the most civilized and least burdensome conception of a state yet to be devised.

The sharing of food is like breaking bread, it's very symbolic.

The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.

The second you go back to eating right, you're going to put that weight on. You eat one piece of bread and you are screwed, lady!

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