Bread Quotes - page 22

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you. (Steve Martin)
Here is the bread of time to come, Here is its actual stone. View quote
Wallace Stevens
How simply the fictive hero becomes the real; How gladly with proper words the solider dies, If he must, or lives on the bread of faithful speech. View quote
Wallace Stevens
A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work. View quote
Jeff Tweedy
Without Ceres (bread) and Bacchus (wine) Venus (love) freezes. View quote
Terence
I like reality. It tastes like bread. View quote
Jean Anouilh
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. View quote
John Ruskin
Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even you father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be getting his rations... View quote
Elie Wiesel
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded by unknown impulses, take the lifeless mass of humanity and by the fever and ferment with which they imbue it turn this soggy dough into bread and the bread into wine and the wine into song. View quote
Henry Miller
You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread. (Henry Miller)
Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world. Receive, O Lord, in its totality the Host which creation, drawn by your magnetism, presents to you at the dawn of a new day. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made ... also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread 'per capita' of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams but I look after the drainage. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
Monty: Counting all this bread, I don't talk to feds. View quote
Willie Maxwell (rapper)
When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift. View quote
Maya Angelou
The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread. View quote
Steven Wright
Sometimes I wander under prehistoric skys Here she comes with a penetrating stare cold desert stars feel and sparkle like frost, they are so lost his seed of adulation is your butter and your bread, it's an exquisite corpse and its lips are red If you're alone and you're feeling blue, everyone in Persia probably feels like you do. ~ Lost. View quote
Steve Kilbey
All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter. View quote
Joseph Addison
Life is like a bowl of old bread. (Bill Allred)
We make war and revolution at the same time. Militiamen are fighting for the conquest of the land, the factories, bread, and culture ... the pickaxe and the shovel are as important as the rifle. Comrades, we will win the war! View quote
Buenaventura Durruti
Daisy looked up at him with the kind of expression that Jesus might have given someone who had just explained that he was probably allergic to bread and fishes, so could He possibly do him a quick chicken salad... View quote
Neil Gaiman
The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory cage and show it a picture of two men -- one usually wearing a coat with a fur collar, the other something sombre with a scarf -- and it'll look up expectantly. View quote
Neil Gaiman
The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn. View quote
Julia Child