Quotes About Bakers

#1. Oh for 'Shael's sweet sake, girl, you think you can rule an empire without lying? You think your father didn't lie? Or his father? Or any of your goldy-eyed great-great-founders of Annur? It's built into the job. Bakers have flour, fishermen have nets, and leaders have lies.

Brian Staveley

#2. I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough.

Bernardino Ramazzini

#3. There are two kinds of people: eaters and bakers. Eaters think the world is a zero-sum game: what someone else eats, they cannot eat. Bakers do not believe that the world is a zero-sum game because they can bake more and bigger pies.

Guy Kawasaki

#4. The most she knew about gardens was the Bakers' own backyard, which contained one large mulberry tree and a rosebush, plus the window boxes where her mother grew runner beans. She knew there was earth under the plants and that the earth contained worms. She shuddered.

Diana Wynne Jones

#5. They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.

Paulo Coelho

#6. As I've heard some bakers say, baking takes a lot of time, but for the most part it's not YOUR time.

Michael Pollan

#7. In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

Paulo Coelho

#8. In many cases where one is content to lead a secluded life it is not necessary to say much of one's past, but as a rule something must be said. People have the habit of inquiring - if they are no more than butchers and bakers. By degrees one must account for this and that fact, and it was so here.

Theodore Dreiser

#9. Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked in one pocket, which wasn't sanitary, but was comforting to the child who needed a tear or nose wiped.

Regina Brett

#10. We need more fruitcakes in this world, and less bakers!

Jimmy Buffett

#11. Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.

John Green

#12. We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.

Ron Ben-Israel

#13. What many bakers don't realise is that good wheat can make bad bread. The magic of bread baking is in the manipulation and the fermentation. What has been lost....is this method.

Lionel Poilane

#14. Revolution was never sparked by political philosophy. It has ever been the price of bread that shakes the pillars of the world. Yet they lock up the thinkers and leave the bakers free.

Rod Duncan

#15. She wanted to give people something kind and simple. That wasn't available.
The cheap cake was horrible. The expensive cake tasted of greed - of greedy bakers.
She couldn't win.
Who knew cake was such a bastard?

A. L. Kennedy

#16. The Jews are just clumsy bakers.

Zach Braff

#17. I'll know coffee works without cream and sugar when I see people buying unsweetened bakers chocolate for Valentine's Day.

Kevin Sinnott

#18. So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.

Amelia Earhart

#19. Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeepers, bakers, scientists, fishermen, grocers, we are all part of that chain, all food people, all dedicated to feeding the world.

Jose Andres

#20. For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Gregg's bakers, though, I'll say that. The opening of the 1977 'Star Wars' movie was possibly the only time I've seen a longer queue round the block than in Glasgow for sausage rolls. That was quite an eye-opener.

Darren Boyd

#21. There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

Tim Robbins

#22. Bakers bake bread, accountants manage accounts and entrepreneurs turn ideas into reality.

Richard Branson

#23. We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

Amah Lambert

#24. When I was little I always wanted to drive a train. That, and become a baker.

Zach Braff

#25. Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding

Benjamin Franklin

#26. I was moved no end by the work of LaVern Baker.

Johnnie Ray

#27. When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.

William Butler Yeats

#28. The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.

David Ricardo

#29. Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist

Eric Idle

#30. The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker ...

Pablo Neruda

#31. Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.

George Herbert

#32. Trust wisely and believe in yourself, in your vision.

Melissa McClone

#33. An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.

Leigh Hunt