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)
“The winter owl banked just in time to pass
And save herself from breaking window glass.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in John 6:35.