Bread Quotes

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep. (Le Corbusier)
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. View quote
James Baldwin
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. View quote
Mother Teresa
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second. View quote
Edward Bellamy
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. View quote
Richard Wright
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. View quote
Anatole France
I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread. View quote
Bill Cosby
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. View quote
Mother Teresa
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)
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. View quote
Anatole France
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life. View quote
Matthew Henry
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor. View quote
Basil of Caesarea
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. View quote
Jim Davis
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it. View quote
José Martí
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs. View quote
Dante Alighieri
Were we to be directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace. View quote
Norman Borlaug
When the people choose bread between bread and freedom, they eventually lose everything, including bread. If the people choose freedom, they will have bread grown by themselves and not taken away by anyone. View quote
Stepan Bandera
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. View quote
Edmund Burke
Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray