Peasant Quotes

130 quotes by 116 authors

Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs, roam, sleep, have… — Jon Katz
I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees. — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together. — Dan Buettner
You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I,… — Marge Piercy
Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. — John Milton
When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring… — Jean Giono
Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale… — Ai Weiwei
I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and… — Unknown Author
I really donâ€™t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the worldÂ withÂ others, not as an aristocratic… — Unknown Author
As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro,… — Subcomandante Marcos
It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor. — Nelson Mandela
Lately I was near the beehives and some of the bees flew onto my face. I wanted to raise my hand, and brush them off.… — Saint Francis de Sales
If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a… — Wallace Shawn
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. — Mao Zedong
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then… — Nikolai Gogol
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler. — William Butler Yeats
I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now. — Pierre Laval
The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule.... It was the… — Mao Zedong
Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant. — Miguel de Cervantes

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