Top 54 Bread Alone Quotes
#1. these stones to become loaves of bread." 4But Jesus told him, "No! The Scriptures say, 'People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'*
Anonymous
#2. He realized he needed strength, sustenance that couldn't come from bread alone. He desperately needed God.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#3. Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.
Bill Cosby
#4. Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.
Eric Gill
#5. They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.
Mark Twain
#6. Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
John Hannah
#7. We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.
Wendell Berry
#8. Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
Haile Selassie
#9. Man does not live by bread alone, but he certainly does not live without the bread.
Emmet Larkin
#11. It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.
John McCarthy
#13. Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.
Ezra Taft Benson
#14. Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. In the end, the claim that just social structures would make works of charity superfluous masks a materialist conception of man: the mistaken notion that man can live "by bread alone" (Mt 4:4; cf. Dt 8:3) - a conviction that demeans man and ultimately disregards all that is specifically human.
Pope Benedict XVI
#17. I don't live by people's compliments because if I live by their compliments, I will die by their criticism. I have learnt not to live by bread alone; not by what people can feed me, I proceed from every word that comes out from the mouth of God.
Patience Johnson
#18. And thus the real battle of life is not the toil for bread. It is fought by all who would keep alive and fresh in their hearts the truth that man doth not live by bread alone.
Percy Clough Ainsworth
#20. Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.
Zig Ziglar
#21. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Jesus Christ
#22. Man can live by bread alone when all his energies are devoted to attaining that bread, but once his mind is clear, once he has ceased to labour through all his waking hours to find food, then he begins to think.
Michael Moorcock
#23. Every true Christian should feel deep in his bones an utter dependence on God's self-revelation in the Scriptures. Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord (Deut. 8:3; Matt. 4:4).
Kevin DeYoung
#25. It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
Orison Swett Marden
#26. Man, we know, cannot live by bread alone but hang me if I don't believe that some women could live by love alone.
Joseph Conrad
#27. Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.
D. W Brogan
#28. Parents do not, indeed, live by bread alone. We feast daily on banquets of our own words.
Sarah Bird
#29. Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad.
Woody Allen
#30. The book from which you take your teaching, Dr. Halse, says that man shall not live by bread alone. These days you're asking men to live without even bread.
Winston Graham
#31. Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
John C. Maxwell
#32. Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
Susan B. Anthony
#33. A man could be content with bread alone if he'd never tasted anything else. But one taste of sugar and John knew he'd never know such sweetness again.
Inez Kelley
#34. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone.
George R R Martin
#35. In a heartbeat, a thousand voices took up the chant. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone. "Bread." they clamored. "Bread, Bread!
George R R Martin
#36. Unfortunately, freedom alone is not enough, by far. If there is a shortage of bread, a shortage of butter and fats, a shortage of textiles, and if housing conditions are bad, freedom will not carry you very far. It is very difficult, comrades, to live on freedom alone.
Robert Harris
#37. 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
#38. Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread.
It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandoned, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty
Mother Teresa
#39. When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.
Laurie Colwin
#40. Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.
Simone Weil
#41. Writing is my soul food, sometimes I eat alone, sometimes I share the bread.
Marie H. Curran
#42. The bread was so powerfully aromatic that, had I been alone, I would have been tempted to push my face into it.
Michael Pollan
#43. We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.
Dorothy Day
#44. Man cannot survive by bread and water alone, but bread and water and hate?
Glen David Gold
#45. Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.
Robert Grudin
#46. One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.
Sholom Aleichem
#47. Daddy and mommy are in the kolkhoz The poor child cries as alone he goes There's no bread and there's no fat The party's ended all of that Seek not the gentle nor the mild A father's eaten his own child The party man he beats and stamps And sends us to Siberian camps38
Timothy Snyder
#48. [There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve.
I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.
Jodi Picoult
#49. The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
Ida Tarbell
#50. Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.
Suzanne Collins
#51. Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.
James Russell Lowell
#52. Women of the world today dress alike. They are like so many loaves of bread. To be beautiful one must be unhurried. Personality is needed. There is too much sameness. The world seems only to have a desire for more of this sameness. To be different is to be alone.
Luisa Casati
#53. They cursed us. Murderer they called us. They cursed us, and drove us away. And we wept, Precious, we wept to be so alone. And we only wish to catch fish so juicy sweet. And we forgot the taste of bread ... the sound of trees ... the softness of the wind. We even forgot our own name. My Precious.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#54. The Eucharist began at Bethlehem in Mary's arms. It was she who brought to humanity the Bread for which it was famishing, and which alone can nourish it. She it was who took care of that Bread for us. It was she who nourished the Lamb whose life-giving Flesh we feed upon
Peter Julian Eymard
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