Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to… — Henry IV of France Copy Share Image
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every… — Henry IV Copy Share Image
I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters… — Pierre Laval Copy Share Image
I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.” — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult… — John Berger Copy Share Image
They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
“Arrogance. The number one cause of death among both peasant and king. Beware its sharp blade. More times than not, it injures… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“If a peasant offers you a beautiful fruit with his dirty hands, take it with endless gratitude because his hands became dirty… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I come from a long line of below-stairs maids and gardeners. Good ol' peasant stock. My mother and her sister made a… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I do not have voice for Russian music; I cannot be cute little peasant like in operas of Glinka or Rimsky-Korsakov. I… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
“The Irish ‘peasant’ is the child of time. He is its guardian and its slave. He will preserve for centuries dull and… — Séan O'FaoláIn Copy Share Image
The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant,… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“The machine which at first blush seems a means of isolating man from the great problems of nature, actually plunges him more… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant. — Confucius Copy Share Image
It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know? — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs. — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“it is the blood of the peasant, the sweat of the weaver, the flesh of the artisan, the words of the poet,… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
“Locavore" may have been the 2007 New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year, but there's already been a word for those… — Brett Martin Copy Share Image
“The important point, and the crux of the Mao heresy, is that the rural peasant is the base of power. This is… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The academic is sharing in the bourgeois’ loot, in a hundred little ways. And the peasant understands necessity as something that transcends… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In the Far East, a peasant has no problem that someone can be born from another universe into a human body, walk… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is… — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
“...the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The peasant also found another use for this sacred object. 'He says of the icon: "It's good for praying -- and you… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
