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Bread Quotes - Page 13

Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.288, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1855). “Miscellanies: Ballads. The book of snobs. The tremendous adventures of Major Gahagan. The fatal boots. Cox's diary”, p.64

Without bread all is misery.

William Cobbett (1824). “Cottage Economy: Containing Information Relative to the Brewing of Beer, Making of Bread, Keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry and Rabbits, and Relative to Other Matters Deemed Useful in the Conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family: To which are Added, Instructions Relative to the Selecting, the Cutting and the Bleaching of the Plants of English Grass and Grain, for the Purpose of Making Hats and Bonnets”, p.43

...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.133

The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.