Butter To My Bread Quotes

#1. I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.

A.A. Milne

#2. You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life

Julia Child

#3. I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.

Sally Mann

#4. Identifying niches and filling them is the bread and butter of the regular interplay between markets and entrepreneurs.

Paul Polak

#5. The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.

Abraham Lincoln

#6. I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.

Vijender Singh

#7. I detest ... anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest bread, butter, olive oil, a generous spirit, lively appetites and attention to what we are eating.

Sybille Bedford

#8. Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.

John Steinbeck

#9. I spent many years in grad school in English, so I've read a lot in a variety of genres. But adventure fantasy is my bread and butter as a reader, and probably always will be. So it's only natural that I came to that genre as a writer.

Saladin Ahmed

#10. All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

Louisa May Alcott

#11. Ruth puts in all the tiddley bits and the expression and doesn't mind how many wrong notes she strikes, but with Jane it is accuracy or nothing. I don't know which Chopin would have hated more, Eleanor said, folding bread and butter into a thickness that would match her appetite.

Josephine Tey

#12. Every time I go into a tournament, I'm strictly on my own. I know I'm playing for my bread and butter.

Charlie Sifford

#13. My whole family is obsessed by brandy butter. And bread sauce. Then, of course, there will be a lot of wind in the afternoon! We have never disguised the wind side of our lives as a family; we think it's hilarious.

Miranda Hart

#14. The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces.

Trevor Bailey

#15. There is excellent provision made of dainty new bread, crusty twists, cool fresh butter, thin slices of ham, tongue, and German sausage, and delicate little rows of anchovies nestling in parsley, not to mention new-laid eggs, to be brought up warm in a napkin, and hot buttered toast. For

Charles Dickens

#16. The Army was my bread and butter.

Brian Lumley

#17. Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

Fiona Apple

#18. For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the pope.

Robert S. Mendelsohn

#19. Guilt didn't put any butter on the bread of life.

Leonore Fleischer

#20. If you love a person in the real sense, you want them to be happy, not take them like butter and spread them thinly over your own bread, to make it more palatable for yourself.

Nella Last

#21. Our supper was only half an anchovy each, on a very little strip of bread and butter, and half a pint of ale between us; but the entertainment was in her conversation.

Benjamin Franklin

#22. Have some bread and butter. The bread
and butter is for Gwendolen. Gwendolen is devoted to bread and
butter.

Oscar Wilde

#23. In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the crispness of the golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live.

Clement Freud

#24. I want to butter your bread, with my pointy butter knife. Til it's dripping off your bun, This salty elixir of life.

R.J. Lewis

#25. Wanting to be near my bread and butter business which was my hairstyling salon, I have done little touring during my lifetime. I hate all this moving around from hotel to hotel, packing and unpacking. I know many entertainers agree with me on this subject.

Thomas Lynch

#26. I have an interest in getting government officials to talk to me about National Security affairs. You know, that's my bread and butter; that's how I make my living.

Scott Shane

#27. When not writing and directing, my bread and butter comes from acting and stunt work. I've been fortunate enough to be part of some amazing productions.

Mike Mayhall

#28. Everyone has their different tastes in regards to power, just like everyone has their different tastes for food or sex. My bread and butter is feeling like my mind and my ideas are shaping the world around me, which is of course why I bother writing the blog.

M.E. Thomas

#29. 'Up the Junction' went on to inform my love of British social realism. It was the first film I saw of this ilk, a very stark, visceral reflection of England, an England I didn't necessarily feel a part of but that I knew was out there. You could almost smell the bread and butter and cabbage.

Gurinder Chadha

#30. I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

Steven Rodney McQueen

#31. I just need to look at you."
"Then keep looking, kiddo," he said. My heart may have melted like a pat of butter on hot bread. "Because I'm looking at you. I don't think I could ever stop.

Karina Halle

#32. The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show.

Damon Lindelof

#33. For several people the challenge with the dream isn't bread & butter but the luxury.

Santosh Avvannavar

#34. Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me.

James Beard

#35. The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

Steven Wright

#36. Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

Leigh Hunt

#37. Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times.

Marisha Pessl

#38. The purpose of our activities on earth must go beyond bread and butter or merely surviving.

Sunday Adelaja

#39. For most of us a job is bread and butter and for most of others its just bread and butter.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#40. Daily sitting is our bread and butter, the basic stuff of dharma. Without it we tend to be confused.

Charlotte Joko Beck

#41. Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.

John Muir

#42. The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.

Charles Dickens

#43. Famous women keep their same names even after they get married because their names are their bread and butter.

Stephen King

#44. Francie, Neeley, and mama had a very fine meal. Each had a thick slice of the "tongue," two pieces of sweet-smelling rye bread spread with unsalted butter, a sugar bun apiece and a mug of strong hot coffee with a teaspoon of sweetened condensed milk on the side.

Betty Smith

#45. I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

Miguel De Cervantes

#46. Leave me to die a lonely death.
An artist's death.
A writer's playground.
A painter's background.
A philosopher's bread and butter.
An endeavor that we
all face. I just hope that
I'm not the only one
there.

A.P. Sweet

#47. False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.

Rob Payne

#48. 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

#49. I eat a huge breakfast every morning - it's what I look forward to. I'll do steel-cut oatmeal with blueberries and strawberries, an egg white scramble with mushrooms, zucchini, and onion, and a piece of cinnamon Ezekiel bread with almond butter. I could do that every single day.

Heather Mitts

#50. My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

Julia Roberts

#51. I want to open a wheat/dairy factory. Bread and butter will be my bread and butter.

Jarod Kintz

#52. ...so I took it out with me into the garden, because the dullest book takes on a certain saving grace if read out of doors, just as bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eaten under a tree.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#53. Those who want to learn more than bread and butter shall be able to make this world a better place ...

Dinesh Kumar

#54. Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#55. I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#56. I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#57. Don't quarrel with your bread and butter." "They

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#58. A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

Marcus Garvey

#59. Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite.

Ruth Reichl

#60. I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather.

Morgan Freeman