Breaking

Famous quotes containing the word breaking:

    “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 defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “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)