Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also,… — Larry Gates Copy Share Image
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“What’s missing from the literature of our species are the stories of the peasants. The filthy illiterate. Those with no firm address,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Every night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking… — Dorothy Stang Copy Share Image
Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
While certain coastal cities have become very prosperous, the rest of China has a per capita income of $200 a year. The… — George Friedman 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
There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
... I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince… — Anonymous 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
“...Most peasants never traveled farther than twenty-five miles from the village of their birth. They had strong social ties to their communities,… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
The mistake the world is making with the simple peoples is to try and hurry them into political concepts they don't understand… — Ramon Magsaysay Copy Share Image
On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
“Until the late modern era, more than 90 per cent of humans were peasants who rose each morning to till the land… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“It can be so difficult to train up the peasants,” she said, pretending to commiserate, her voice heavy with irony. “They find… — Caitlin Crews Copy Share Image
[On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“There, on the corner, stood a thick crowd of people, all of them peasants. He made his way into the very thick… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was an island named Blogosphere, and at the very center of that island stood a great castle… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“economic pie of 2014 is far larger than the pie of 1500, but it is distributed so unevenly that many African peasants… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs,… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Bernie Sanders is like those liberal members of the German National Socialist Party during the WWII, or of the Italian Fascist movement… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
What we consider is that the Venezuelan government is not a leftist government, has nothing of a leftist government. It is an… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
![“While certain coastal cities have become very prosperous, the rest of China has a per capita income of $200 a year. The coast wants to have nothing to do with the interior; it wants to work with Tokyo and New York. This is an old story in China. It is why Mao succeeded in 1927. He wanted [coastal]…” quote by George Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/george-friedman-7436_army_while-certain-coastal-cities-have-become_1268579.png)
![“[On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found the same attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night.” quote by Elsa Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/315/elsa-maxwell-18439_attitude_on-hollywood-i-had-gone-there-expecting_2517008.jpg)
