#bread

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

#bread #down #find #hard #how

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. ↗

— Paul Auster

#bread #contemporary #earn #food #french

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#breadth #humanitarian #knowledge #lays #solely

Acorns were good until bread was found. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#bread #found #until #were

How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this country, and that much of the margarine, and cooking oil, and all the other things. ↗

— Dwayne Andreas

#cooking #country #going #government #how

I like reality. It tastes like bread. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#i #like #reality #tastes

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

#bread #cast #comes #floating #human

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

#does #effort #force #i #i think

I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#chicken #drink #eat #fish #i

Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old. ↗

— Mario Batali

#america #any #because #becomes #bread