Bread Quotes

Two things only the people desire: bread, and the circus games.

Juvenal

In the Lords prayer, the first petition is for daily bread; no one can worship God, or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Woodrow Wilson

Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes -- in other words, essential!

Emily Post

In Paris today, millions of pounds of bread are sold daily, made during the previous night by those strange, half-naked beings one glimpses through cellar windows, whose wild-seeming cries floating out of those depths always makes a painful impression. In the morning, one sees these pale men, still white with flour, carrying a loaf under one arm, going off to rest and gather new strength to renew their hard and useful labor when night comes again. I have always highly esteemed the brave and humble workers who labor all night to produce those soft but crusty loaves that look more like cake than bread.

Alexander Dumas

Honest bread is very well, it's butter that makes the temptation.

Douglas William Jerrold

Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.

George Herbert

The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and made their own bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loafs seem,so perfumes, as home-made bread used to be before the war.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.

Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversat

What hymns are sung.What praises said.For homemade miracles of bread?

Louis Untermeyer

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water is indescribable in its evocations of innocence and delight.

M. F. K. Fisher

I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you dont know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch.

Emily Dickinson