Denis William Brogan Quotes

Man does not live by bread alone.

Men and women do not live by bread alone. They also need sustaining ideas.

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

Securing food is the basic task for all humans.

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.

What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.

There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.

Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.

Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.

Food is a part of our contract with life.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about.