50 Bread Quotes To Warm Your Soul

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Bread is one of the oldest foods in humankind’s history.

It has played an essential role in the daily life of cultures since the earliest humans walked planet earth.

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What are the benefits of reading these bread quotes?

Bread is more than just a material food.

It symbolizes:

• culture
• hunger
• history
• peace
• war

In Africa, they have discovered the remains of millstones for grinding grain that date back 30,000 years.

Bread is unique to human civilization and culture because it is one of the oldest foods that does not require foraging or hunting to prepare.

Before the invention of ovens, humans would grind grain and let it sit in the sun, which caused it to develop a light crust.

We also discovered that this grain created a type of porridge when mixed with water.

Bread has been one of the most versatile foods humans have ever invented.

Funny bread quotes

1. “Acorns were good until bread was found.” — Francis Bacon

2. “Where there’s no law, there’s no bread.” — Benjamin Franklin

3. “Avoid those who don’t like bread and children.” — Swiss Proverb

4. “How can a nation be great if their bread tastes like kleenex?” — Julia Childs

5. “If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily.” — Chinese proverb

6. “Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.” — Fran Lebowitz

7. “Give me yesterday’s Bread, this Day’s Flesh, and last Year’s Cider.” — Benjamin Franklin

8. “Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.” — John C. Maxwell

9. “I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.” — Bill Cosby

10. “I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it — after all, they’ve already given us tasteless bread.” — Robert Orben

Bread quotes and sayings

11. “The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. “Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.” — W. H. Auden

13. “With bread all sorrows are less.” — Sancho Panza speaking to Dapple

14. “Better dry bread in peacetime than meat in wartime.” — Hungarian Proverb

15. “There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

16. “Rather a piece of bread with a happy heart than wealth with grief.” — Egyptian Proverb

17. “With a piece of bread in your hand you’ll find paradise under a pine tree.” — Russian Proverb

18. “If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.” — Robert Browning

19. “‘A loaf of bread,’ the Walrus said, ‘is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides are very good indeed.’” — Lewis Caroll

20. “Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.” — James Beard

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21. “Without bread all is misery.” — William Cobbett

22. “A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.” — Omar Khayyam

23. “All sorrows are less with bread.” ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

24. “Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread. Without it, it’s flat.” — Carmen McRae

25. “Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.” — Fran Lebowitz

26. “Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.” — Pablo Neruda

27. “I love the smell of freshly baked bread and I love the smell of cupcake batter.” -Anonymous

28. “Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.” — Richard Wright

29. “Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey if we would eat it, in a good book.” — John Ruskin

30. “The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight.” — M. F. K. Fisher

Bread quotes from the bible and about God, love, & kindness

31. “Give us today our daily bread.” — Matthew 6:11

32. “Deep gratitude to God for providing us with our daily bread.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

33. “Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.” — Nikoli Berdyaev

34. “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” — Mother Teresa

35. “For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.” — Khalil Gibran

36. “There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” — Mahatma Gandhi

37. “Then Jesus declared, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” — John, 6:35

38. “While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.” — Matthew 26:26

39. “The bread that you store up belongs to the hungry; the coat that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold that you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.” — St. Basil

40. “On the first day of the week, we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.” — Acts 20:7

Bread quotes about butter and other foods

41. “Bachelor’s fare: Bread, cheese, and kisses.” — Jonathan Swift

42. “Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.” — Louisa May Alcott

43. “Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one’s bread to determine which side it is buttered on.” — Ambrose Bierce

44. “Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.” — James Beard

45. “It’s more than just the finished crust. It’s all of what goes into making a great loaf of bread– giving it life, and making it taste even better.” — Anonymous

46. “Bread, soup – these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.” — Elie Wiesel

47. “For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries, and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.” — Steve Albini

48. “If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.” — Jose Marti

49. “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

50. “If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.” — Jose Marti

How important is bread?

If you think about it, bread has had an influential impact on humanity for a long time.

Humans developed varied forms of living together: hunter-gathering societies, villages, empires, and city-states.

In all aspects of human society, bread has been essential.

Bread has impacted how we live in our modern times.

Our ancestors wanted to turn grain and water into enjoyable food.

Even nomadic cultures still had to work together to harvest and prepare grain.

Finding and preparing these ingredients gave people a reason to work together and develop.

Fixed habitation allowed for creating recipes, tools, and practices to produce grain products at more sophisticated levels.

Bread is a part of every world culture.

To honor this idea, World Bread Day was founded.

Bread provides humanity with 20 percent of its calories.

If you want to celebrate World Bread Day, it is October 16.

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