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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. -- Anatole France
Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life. -- Matthew Henry
I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it. -- Timothy White
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
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. -- James A. Baldwin
There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem. -- Orison Swett Marden
You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life. -- Pope Paul VI
Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb. -- Gerhard Richter
I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible. -- Ignatius of Antioch
Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it. -- Orison Swett Marden
I like both potatoes and rice. You can do a lot with both of them. But if I could eat only one carbohydrate for the rest of my life, I wouldn't choose bread, potatoes or even noodles. I'd go for rice instead; I eat more of that than anything else. -- Nobu Matsuhisa
I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the '80s - watching 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' 'Silver Spoons,' Saturday morning cartoons, and 'Murder, She Wrote' while eating an insane amount of Stouffer's French bread pizza. I was sucked into it all. -- Jim Rash
I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese. -- Phil Collins
In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that's one way of living. In the Orient they look at life through art. They even drink their tea without sugar, for the same reason that they don't like a lot of frilly decorations on a painting. I can't stand butter on my bread for the same reason. I'm allergic to goo and rococo. -- Paul Rand
Bread is the staff of life. -- Jonathan Swift
Guilt didn't put any butter on the bread of life. -- Leonore Fleischer
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. -- Jean Paul
Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate. -- Rett MacPherson
French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs. -- Mireille Guiliano
You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life -- Julia Child
Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again. -- Monica Seles
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second. -- Edward Bellamy
I love sandwiches. Let's face it, life is better between two pieces of bread. -- Jeff Mauro
The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life. -- John Piper
The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone. -- Ellen G. White
The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed... -- John of the Cross
The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life. -- Suzanne Collins
It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread. -- Angelus Silesius
I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life. -- Dallin H. Oaks
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread. -- Candice Bergen
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. -- James Joyce
You're my bread when I'm hungry You're my shelter from troubled winds You're my anchor in life's ocean Most of all You're my best friend -- Don Williams
Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper. -- Richard Wagner
In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough. -- William Levy
We've been so concerned about being cool, relevant, and fun that we have forgotten to be bread, light, and life to a hungry, dark, and dying world. -- Eric Ludy
My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all. -- Roque Dalton
Bread of Life? Jesus lived up to the title. But an unopened loaf does a person no good. Have you received the bread? Have you received God's forgiveness? -- Max Lucado
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls. -- Horace Mann
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

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