Quotes About Bread
“There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.” –Mahatma Gandhi
except in the form of bread.” –Mahatma Gandhi
“All sorrows are less with bread.” –Miguel de Cervantes
“Bread deals with living things, with giving life, with growth, with the seed, the grain that nurtures. It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life.” –Lionel Poilane
“Als drait zich arum broit un toit (It all comes down to bread and death).” –Yiddish proverb
“Bread is the warmest, kindest of words. Write it always with a capital letter, like your own name.” –Anonymous
“Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad…but bread is king.” –Louis Bromfield
“You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.” –Henry Miller
“Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree.” –Elizabeth Russell
“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts!” –James Beard
“…the best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker….” –Pablo Neruda
“Bachelor’s fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.” —Jonathan Swift
“Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.” –Fran Lebowitz
“Acorns were good till bread was found.” —Francis Bacon
“[Breadbaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world’s sweetest smells… there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.” –M.F.K. Fisher
