Breaking Bread

Breaking bread may refer to:

  • Physically tearing a loaf of bread open, or breaking dry bread apart – traditionally method of separating bread, rather than cutting with a knife
  • Metaphorically, having a meal together, or starting a meal
  • The Christian Eucharist
  • Breaking Bread (TV series)
  • Episode 82 of Touched by an Angel

Famous quotes containing the words breaking and/or bread:

    “Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
    —Sun Tzu (6–5th century B.C.)

    “Such is the labor which the American Congress exists to protect,—honest, manly toil,—honest as the day is long,—that makes his bread taste sweet, and keeps society sweet,—which all men respect and have consecrated; one of the sacred band, doing the needful but irksome drudgery.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)