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  • Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?

    Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.101, New World Library
  • When I first started, they were trying to get me into sitcoms - I think because I had that kind of Wonder Bread look and my hair always went into place. I kept saying, 'I'm not good at sitcoms. I don't know how to do that.'

    Thinking   Hair   Trying  
  • In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the marketplace.

    Mother   Home   Sweat  
    "The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson".
  • Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

    Poetry   Myrtle   Ruins  
    George Crabbe, “The VILLage: Book I”
  • This is one beggar who has found bread telling others where to find it.

  • [My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned; he didn't make the appointments. He didn't shop for my clothes. He didn't make my breakfast, lunch, or dinner. My mom did all of those things, and nobody ever told her when she did them that it made her a good mother.

    Mom   Mother   Dad  
    Michael Chabon (2012). “Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son”, p.17, Harper Collins
  • If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.

    Love You   Greed   Want  
  • For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, "This is what I have made of it! This!" And what had she made of it? What, indeed?

    Children   Lakes   Ducks  
    Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.878, Delphi Classics
  • Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.

    Often Is   Want   Taste  
  • A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.

    Medicine   Pills   Bread  
    Douglas William Jerrold (1850). “The catspaw: a comedy”, p.5
  • French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

    Mireille Guiliano (2013). “French Women Don't Get Fat”, p.208, Random House
  • They're really aggressive. They're like roaches on bread - you drop some on the floor and, boom, they're on it.

  • In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.

    Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.286, VM eBooks
  • Where there's no law, there's no bread.

    Law   Bread  
    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing
  • Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

    Writing   People   Mouths  
    Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.289, Oxford University Press
  • There was a period when I was getting a lot of banana bread, because I mentioned someone cooked me banana bread, and then everyone cooked me baked stuff, and I would take it to the hotel, and it was making me fat.

    Stuff   Bread   Bananas  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches - two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them.

    Funny   Humor   Luxury  
  • I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor's roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID.

    Father   Flames   Knives  
    Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.104, Penguin
  • In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

    Work   Sweat   Light  
    Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.153, Library of America
  • I believe the world is beautiful, and poetry, like bread, is for everyone.

  • The pope [Francis] speaks with great passion about the shame we should all feel when, as he puts it, "a man does not have the dignity of earning bread for his family," but is turned into a peripheral person, a welfare client, a dependent.

    Passion   Men   Doe  
    Source: eppc.org
  • I think, she began quietly, I think we want... not just bread for our bellies. We want more than only bread. We want food for our hearts, our souls. We want- how to say it? We want, you know- Puccini music.... we want for our beautiful children some beauty. She leaned over and kissed the curl on her finger. We want roses.

    Katherine Paterson (2008). “Bread and Roses, Too”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

    Desire   Bread   Born  
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Matilda Gage (2017). “HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 1 (Illustrated): The Origin of the Movement - Lives and Battles of Pioneer Suffragists (Including Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)”, p.1655, e-artnow
  • For they truly know their Lord in the breaking of bread, whose heart within them so vehemently burneth, whilst Thou, O blessed Jesus, dost walk and converse with them.

    Jesus   Blessed   Heart  
    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writer" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 372, 1895.
  • I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.

    Life   Littles   Bread  
    A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.72, Egmont UK
  • Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

    Food   Beard   Bread  
    "The Soup & Bread Cookbook: More Than 100 Seasonal Pairings for Simple, Satisfying Meals". Book by Beatrice Ojakangas, p. 7, 2013.
  • Pepperidge Farm bread. That's fancy bread. You can tell it's fancy because it's wrapped twice. You open it, and it still isn't open. That's why I don't buy it. I don't need another step between me and toast.

    Funny   Humor   Needs  
  • I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese.

  • How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

    "How to Avoid TV Dinners While Watching TV" by Joan Barthel, The New York Times Magazine, p. 34, August 7, 1966.
  • I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, 'Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new,-- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away.

    Hurt   Wine   Years  
    Emily Dickinson, “I Had Been Hungry All The Years”
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