Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device. — Frederick Busch 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
'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw… — Ahmed Ben Bella 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
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
“This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are *equipped.* Up there,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“They are all stupid peasants, and the worst of all peasants are the so-called educated. These people should not only be prevented… — William S Burroughs Copy Share Image
Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
“I had always pictured the Albanian peasants as a very fine picturesque race of men wearing spotless native costume, and slung about… — Flora Sandes Copy Share Image
But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien… — Morris West Copy Share Image
“Peasant families were close-knit. However, as the Black Death swept through village after village, it became difficult for young peasants to find… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
“The master and mistress of the house and the rest of the Blood -even the Crux himself- brought our food, poured the… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
“Diamond writes: “We have to wonder why the kings and nobles failed to recognize and solve these seemingly obvious problems undermining their… — Douglas Preston 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
“The history of middle-class and working-class revolutions has shown that the bulk of the peasants often constitute a brake on the revolution.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland,… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the… — Benjamin Butler Copy Share Image
What is necessary is to teach each class and profession the importance of the others. All together form one mighty body; labourer,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food,… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
“You build a thing of beauty, and then the peasants storm the castle, hooting and chanting and calling you a heretic.” — Vic S. Sussman Copy Share Image
Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose… — Erin Morgenstern 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 most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
“Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“But what hope is there for the world, if a nation of penniless peasants can't try to climb up out of the… — Ken Follet 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
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
Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and… — Saddam Hussein 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
