The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.
Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
Quite honestly, as long as I am working, can enjoy what I do, get on with it, and put bread on the table, I am really happy.
I love eating sushi and eating raw and clean - no pasta and bread. Low carbs is what works for me.
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.
It may be healthier to eat beer and franks with cheer and thanks, than to eat sprouts and bread with doubts and dread.
Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.
At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.
One may live without bread, not without roses.
Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread
Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God.
Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.
Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
On Sunday morning I went out for a while in the neighbourhood; I bought some raisin bread. The day was warm but a little sad, as Sundays often are in Paris, especially when one doesn't believe in God.
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.
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!
A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.
Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
When you work in Norway, you actually have to have a contract about lunches because Norwegians don't eat lunch normally, so they just throw out a loaf of bread and some coldcuts.
As champions of green jobs, we're asking questions that progressives should like, like "How are we going to avoid baking the planet," and "How are we going to create jobs for ordinary Americans?" Meanwhile, we're offering solutions that conservative should like. I'm not calling for more welfare; I'm calling for more work.
I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.
I will eat anything Mexican - a sombrero, hacienda... anything. They've perfected the combo of bread items and the grill.
They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.
The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime.
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.
All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
I don't eat bread.' Is she pouting? It's hard to tell. She's had a lot of chemicals injected into her face.
I will eat anything Mexican - a sombrero, hacienda... anything. Theyve perfected the combo of bread items and the grill.
I was, as the prophet said, hungering and thirsting for righteousness. I found it at the eternal and material core of Christianity: body, blood, bread, wine, poured out freely, shared by all.
You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.
People are not hungry just for bread, they are hungry for love.
I drank my bottle of milk and ate my morsel of bread somewhere on the outskirts, while I circumspectly studied my environment or else fell to meditating on my own harsh lot.
As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich.
There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.
A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!
The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.
Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.
In Pizza Express you can get garlic bread with cheese and tomato. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but that's a pizza.
Better is the man of humble standing that works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.
Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.
The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.
I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.
In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel.
Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.
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.
It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain, short life spans, and no bread without sweat must be accepted.
Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me.
I love chocolate cake. I'm French. I also love cheese and bread, so I could just live on that. But I can't do that to myself, so I have to moderate.
I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.
I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists.
When there is very little else left to believe in, one can still believe in an honest loaf of fragrant, home-baked bread.
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.
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