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:
“The breaking waves dashed high
On a stern and rock-bound coast,”
—Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1783–1835)
“Deliberation. The act of examining one’s bread to determine which side it is buttered on.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)