Bread
To accompany (au con pain),
as in "companion," means
"to come with bread"

Bakers knead bread not only with their own hands,
but with the hands of those who taught them to bake.
-- Jim Forest



Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.
-- Kurt Vonnegut


Praise those who came before you...
You eat the bread of their labor.
You drink the wine of their joy.
-- Marge Piercy

We are bound to one another ... like flour in a loaf.
-- Saint John Chrysostom

Kindness is like yeast. It leavens and lifts what is heavy. -- Gunilla Norris

Such is the economy of nature - your strength,
like a pinch of yeast, will surely agitate,
ferment all that comes under its influence,
your actions, thoughts, words,
will take their place without any special effort.
-- Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
Bread for myself
is a physical question;
bread for my neighbor
is a spiritual question.
-- Nikolai Berdyaev



We are all mere beggars
telling other beggars
where to find bread.
-- D.T. Niles

Take, eat: this is my body,
which is broken for you.
This do in remembrance of me.
-- I Corinthians 11:24

