Famous quotes containing the words bread, food and/or bank:
“Eating the bitter bread of banishment.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“... an adamantine island chained to the shifting bank of the Channel.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)