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:
“What was he doing, the great god Pan,
Down in the reeds by the river?
Spreading ruin and scattering ban,
Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat,
And breaking the golden lilies afloat
With the dragon-fly on the river.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?”
—Lucy Stone (1818–1893)