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:

    “Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “Each [side in this war] looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)