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Definition of Bread

Bread

To spread.

An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.

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Bread Quotations

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa

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

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Thomas Jefferson

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.
Bill Cosby

The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.
Charlie Sheen

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
Ambrose Bierce

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
John Stuart Mill

Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
Og Mandino

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
Dante Alighieri

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
James A. Baldwin

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

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
Milton Berle

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Jesus Christ

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
John C. Maxwell

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
Omar Khayyam

Man lives for science as well as bread.
William James

Acorns were good until bread was found.
Francis Bacon

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
Daniel Webster

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Eaten bread is forgotten.
Thomas Fuller

We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.
Theodor Herzl

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
W. H. Auden

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck

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Bread Translations

bread in Afrikaans is brood
bread in Dutch is mik, brood
bread in French is pain
bread in German is Brot, Brot, panieren
bread in Italian is pagnotta
bread in Latin is crustum, panis
bread in Spanish is pan

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