Friday, November 9, 2012

#829 Bread is king

How can a nation be great if their bread tastes like kleenex?   ~Julia Childs

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


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. Fischer


With bread all sorrows are less, Sancho Panza in Don Quixote.  ~Miguel de Cervantes


Give me yesterday’s Bread, this Day’s Flesh, and last Year’s Cider.  ~Benjamin Franklin


Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.  ~Pablo Neruda


There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.  ~ Mahatama Gandhi


Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread. Without it, it’s flat.  ~Carmen McRae


Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.  ~Nikoli Berdyaev


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


If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.  ~Robert Browning


Avoid those who don’t like bread and children.  ~ Swiss Proverb


With a piece of bread in your hand you’ll find paradise under a pine tree.  ~Russian Proverb


What hymns are sung.
What praises said.
For homemade miracles of bread?   ~ Louis Untermeyer


- How much do you enjoy good bread?
- To what extent are you careful about your consumption of bread for dietary reasons?
- How willing are you to share the bread of goodness with others?