Quotes with bread

  • In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
  • Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
  • Money, you've got lots of friends Crowding round the door When you're gone, spending ends They don't come no more Rich relations give Crust of bread and such You can help yourself But don't take too much.

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  • Sydney Smith All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
    Carlos Saavedra Lamas
     
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  • Georges Bernanos A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Francis Bacon Acorns were good until bread was found.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Edmund Burke And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Salman Rushdie Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Bill Rancic Bread pudding makes me weak. I have been known to be moved to tears by cookies and ice cream, and ribs are a spiritual experience for me.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Each man must have his ''I''; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Every day, to earn my daily bread
    I go to the market where lies are bought
    Hopefully
    I take up my place among the sellers.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Hollywood (1942)
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Stephen Vincent Benét Freedom is the bread and the morning and the risen sun.
    Stephen Vincent Benét
    American poet, short story writer, and novelist (1898 - 1943)
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  • Sarah Ban Breathnach Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.
    Sarah Ban Breathnach
    American author and philanthropist
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  • John A. Hannah Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
    John A. Hannah
     
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  • Josh Billings 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.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Thales of Miletus Hope is the poor man's bread.
    Thales of Miletus
     
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  • Anthony Trollope I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Herman Melville I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Salman Rushdie I grew up kissing books and bread.
    Is nothing sacred? (1990)
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Henrik Ibsen I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Beatrice Webb 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.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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