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“It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.”

Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).

“To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.”

Happiness Poverty Bread Obliged Daily Bread Our Daily Bread

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“I'm cool with whatever. I'll just keep eating my bread, sipping my soup and serving my time. But the chicken is going to lay some more eggs one day.”

One Day Eating Lays Bread My Time Eggs Serving Chickens Soup Sipping

Author:Charles Oakley

“There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross, and would make of him a second Moses, offering us the stones of the law instead of the life-bread of the gospel.”

Stills Form Law Glory Stones Crosses Bread Subtle Offering Crowns Moses Saviour Legalism

Book:Grace and Glory

Source: Grace and Glory

“Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.”

Giving Believe Mean Has Beens Today I Believe Dark Secret Half Class Cooking Bread Cups Bananas Rum Cooking Classes

Book:My Almost Epic Summer

Source: My Almost Epic Summer

“I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.”

Drinking Bread Smoking Sugar Belly Pork No Smoking

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.”

Inspirational Believe I Believe Water Goodness Mercy Charity I Believe In Bread Casting

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels… Potatoes! Bread!”

Feels I Can Names Taste Bread Potatoes Skinny

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I think that people are built the way that they’re built. There’s that Kate Moss quote that’s like ‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’ and I can name a lot of things that taste better than skinny feels: bread, potatoes … a Philly cheesesteak and fries.”

People Thinking Way Feels I Can Names Taste Built Bread Potatoes Skinny Kate Moss Fries

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.”

Needs Creative Nice Bread

Author:John Goodman

“I'd forgotten what an honest sandwich it is. For those of you not familiar, 'BLT' stands for 'bacon, lettuce, and tomato.' A lot of people think the 'B' stands for 'bread,' and I can understand someone not wanting a lettuce and tomato sandwich. But, the bread is implied in the word 'sandwich.' Anyway, it's an American original. Everyone should have a BLT as soon as they can.”

People Thinking Should I Can Honest Should Have Originals Forgotten Bread Familiar Sandwiches Tomatoes Implied Lettuce

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.”

Men Wisdom Humor Funny Witty Wit Bread Presidential Live By Can Not Peanuts Peanut Butter Bread And Butter Alone Man

Author:Bill Cosby

“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!”

Pieces Eating Weight Bread One Piece Eating Right

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.”

May Sides Bread Your Side Inherit The Wind

Author:Gene Kelly

“If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.”

Ifs Water Casts Bread Boxing Get Back Have Faith Cash

Author:Don King

“I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread.”

Opinion Bread Comedian Ducks Humorists

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Once I saw a duck walking down the street so I went into Subway and ordered two pieces of bread, and they informed me that they could not do that, like there was some speical rule at Subway that two pieces of bread weren't allowed to touch. So the woman asked me what I wanted on the sandwich and I said I do not care, it is for a duck, and she was like oh then it's free. I was not aware that ducks eat for free at Subway. It's like give me a chicken fajita sub, but don't worry about ringing it up, it is for a duck.”

Giving Said Two Care Wanted Worry Saws Pieces Streets Walking Give Me Bread Chickens Ducks Sandwiches Subway

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your feet and the coat on your back.”

Want Needs One Thing Feet Husband Shoes I Realized Bread Meat Over You Roof Coats Roof Over Your Head

Book:The Brides of Rollrock Island

Source: The Brides of Rollrock Island

“My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.”

Way Mother Son Arms Vote Bread Former Carrie Governors Palin French Bread Looking For Sympathy

Author:Andrea Fay Friedman

“Women of the world today dress alike. They are like so many loaves of bread. To be beautiful one must be unhurried. Personality is needed. There is too much sameness. The world seems only to have a desire for more of this sameness. To be different is to be alone.”

World Different Seems Today Beautiful Desire Too Much Personality Needed Dresses Bread World Today Sameness

Author:Luisa Casati

“I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain, and their pancake is crepe. Pain and poison and crap. That's what they have every day.”

Thinking Pain Language Strange Fishes Bread France Poison Crap Pancakes Crepes

Author:Xiaolu Guo

“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.”

Men Needs Light Order Sleep Space Bread

Author:Le Corbusier

“The path to obesity is paved with bacon and white bread; the way to skinny is built on apples and Ezekiel.”

Way White Path Built Bread Apples Skinny Obesity White Bread Ezekiel

Book:The Skinny Rules: The Simple, Nonnegotiable Principles for Getting to Thin

Source: The Skinny Rules: The Simple, Nonnegotiable Principles for Getting to Thin

“I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner.”

Said Light Dies Rooms Heard Corners Smell Bread Baking Around The Corner Bright Lights

Book:The Hermit's Story: Stories

Source: The Hermit's Story: Stories

“A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it...a cheese-trap.”

Whole Greater Humble Bread New Things Cheese Traps Forging Bread And Cheese

Author:Joe Abercrombie

“I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available.”

Ifs Knows Made Activity Projects Available Bread Geometry Pigeons Triangles

Author:Jenny Holzer

“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.”

Feels God Feelings Pieces Broken Infinite Bread Supper Fraternity Broken Up

Book:Correspondence

Source: Correspondence

“Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.”

Want Believe Wells Littles Young Religion Hate Business Wife Shapes Stress Lays Saint Bread Finance Believe In God Sensible Handsome Moderates Be Young Chaste

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“The beautiful in life... Some talk of it in poetry, Some grow it from the soil, Some build it in a steeple, Some show it through their toil. Some breathe it into music, Some mold it into art, Some shape it into bread loaves... Some hold it in their hearts.”

Heart Art Shows Beautiful Grows Shapes Breathe Bread Meaning Of Life Soil Toil Mold Steeples

Author:Bernard Meltzer

“Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.”

Nations Justice Hungry Bread

Author:François-René de Chateaubriand

“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.”

Long Two Humor Earth Funny Faces Pieces Proud Bread Uplifting Native American Memorial Day Funny 4th Of July Proud To Be An American Eating Bread

Author:Bill Cosby

“American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up. My idea was: Enjoy baking, sell your bread, people like it, sell more. Keep the bakery going because you're making good food and people are happy.”

People Ideas Enjoy Sells Bread Selling Developing Profitable Baking Good Food American Business Bakeries

Author:Ian MacKaye

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

People Made Bread Shells Peas Flour

Author:Bel Kaufman

“Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.”

Water Casts Bread

Book:LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…

Source: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…

“If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.”

Ifs Life Firsts Bread Recreation

Book:Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature

Source: Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature

“The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.”

Needs Ideals Bread Rooted

Book:The Works of Victor Hugo

Source: The Works of Victor Hugo

“We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success. We must therefore act together as a united people, for national reconciliation, for nation building, for the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. Let freedom reign.”

“A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life.”

Seems Care Joy Hours Sleep Laughing Trouble Minutes Tears Laughter Corners Warm Bread Making Love Finest Pints Foils

Book:The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Source: The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar

“After bread, education is the first need of the people.”

People Needs Firsts Bread

Author:Georges Danton

“More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people bake the bread, and some people write the songs.”

People Way Feels Writing Song Careers Function Bread Holistic

Author:Jackson Browne

“Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras. . . . As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.”

“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.”

People Knows Made Said Stuff Natural Know How Food Population Bread Wheat Cereal Whisky

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".”

People Country Bread Length Cake Princess

Book:The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Newly Translated Into English

Source: The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Newly Translated Into English

“A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.”

Natural Nice Regret Fool Stupidity Genuine Bread Idiot Melancholy Sophisticated Homemade

Author:Leonardo Sciascia

“Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.”

People Wells Known Wife Bread Cake Attributes Confession Well Known Remarks Marie

Author:Marie Antoinette

“If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.”

People Ifs Bread Cake

Author:Marie Antoinette

“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.”

Men Inspirational Humans Doe Education Higher Discovery Fundamentals Bread Live By March Human Relations Human Relationships Higher Education

Author:John A. Hannah

“Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks. It grinds you to whiteness. It kneads you until you are pliant. And then it assigns you to its sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's Heart.”

Knows Heart May Secret Fire Sacred Bread Naked Fragments Corn Grind Whiteness Sacred Fire

Author:Khalil Gibran

“There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.”

People Writing War Body Asks Answers Food Communication Broken Wine Hunger Bread Drunk Ask Me

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war The mobilization order is already written out. 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.”

Knows War Lying Order Speak Common Leader Written Folks Bread Hopefully Curse Cynical Sellers Daily Bread Mobilization Common Folk

Author:Bertolt Brecht