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 bread, breaking and/or bread:
“Be known to us in breaking bread,
But do not then depart;
Saviour, abide with us, and spread
Thy table in our heart.”
—James Montgomery (1771–1854)
“I am gradually drifting to the opinion that this Rebellion can only be crushed finally by either the execution of all the traitors or the abolition of slavery. Crushed, I mean, so as to remove all danger of its breaking out again in the future.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)