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Bread Quotes - Page 11

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

"At 100, Still a Teacher, and Quite a Character" by Joseph Berger, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2011.

We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.

Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

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

Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

Sarah Josepha Hale (2012). “Early American Cookery: "The Good Housekeeper," 1841”, p.129, Courier Corporation

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.197, Graphic Arts Books

I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.

Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.110, BookBaby

The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

Kathleen Norris (1998). “The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "women's Work"”, p.15, Paulist Press

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.840, Library of America

Half a loaf is better than no bread.

Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”