24 Best Breaking Bread Quotes Of All Time

“It’s sort of like a tribe, a group of friends you see all the time. You travel with them, you break bread with them,.. You’re part of a family in a sense. That’s what surfing is or it used to be. It’s become a bigger family now that everybody is so interested.” – Art Brewer

“We cannot curse the sky if we stay and break bread with boys and their troubles while men full of mountains and moons are waiting with stories of how far they’ve come.” – Butterflies Rising

“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him – the people who give you their food give you their heart.” – Cesar Chavez

“Dining with one’s friends and beloved family is certainly one of life’s primal and most innocent delights. One that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.” – Julia Child

“When eating becomes a matter of life or death and each new bite is a celebration you may discover that none of the other stuff was quite as important as sitting and breaking bread together.” – Bee Wilson

“We must grow beyond it. Why reinforce our differences, and keep ancient laws, and never know the joy of breaking bread with our neighbors?” – Helene Wecker

“Breaking bread together is an opportunity for nourishment on so many levels.” – Jen Schmidt

“I’d rather dine at a banquet with my enemies than to break bread with a pretentious friend.” – Sheva Chiquot

“The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table… join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses.” – Oprah Winfrey

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

“There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.”- Barbara Coloroso

“Christ is bread awaiting hunger.” – St. Augustine

“Let us sit down soon to eat with all those who haven’t eaten, let us spread great tablecloths, put salt in the lakes of the world, set up planetary bakeries, table with strawberries in snow and a plate like the moon itself from which we will all eat. For now I ask no more than the justice of eating.” – Pablo ...

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“Thank you for giving me bread to break with family and friends. Thank you for my good health and even better cheer. Thank you for the eternal love, light and meaning given to each of my days.”

“There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.” – Mother Teresa

“If you are more fortunate than others, it is better to build a longer table than a taller fence.”

“The sharing of food is like breaking bread, it’s very symbolic.”- Robert Irvine

“Let us break bread together on our knees. Let us drink wine together on our knees. Let us praise God together on our knees.” – African Spiritual

“If though tastest a crust of bread, tho tastest all the stars and all the heavens.” – Robert Browning

“Too few of us, perhaps, feel that breaking bread, the sharing of salt, the common dipping into one bowl, mean more than satisfaction of a need. We make such primal things as casual as tunes heard over a radio, forgetting the mystery and strength in both.” – M.F.K. Fisher

“For they truly know their Lord in the breaking of bread, whose heart within them so vehemently burneth, whilst Thou, O blessed Jesus, dost walk and converse with them.” – Thomas A. Kempis

“They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts.” – Acts 2:46 (Bible Verse)

“Only break bread with people you starved with.”

“When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.” – Henri J.M. Nouwen