Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family… — Cassandra Clare 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
Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people… — Leon Trotsky 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
Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A good way to keep a mob of peasants from killing your monster is when they break into your castle, make them… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I was being brought up on peasant stories; my mother came from Europe and she'd been a peasant and that was the… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I… — Ruth Sawyer Copy Share Image
[Ireland is a] country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies. — Robert Kilroy-Silk Copy Share Image
Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bible affects everybody's life who is a Christian, from the middle class in Europe to the peasant in Africa and Asia.… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
If the peasants are in open rebellion, then they are outside the law of God. Therefore let all who are able slash,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind.… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down… — William Langland Copy Share Image
Like at the DMV when you've passed your driver's test and had a really bad picture taken and you're waiting for them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image