Peasant Quotes

130 Peasant quotes by 116 unique authors

Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him,… — Rebecca West
It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the… — James A. Baldwin
There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared to be a… — Becca Fitzpatrick
You don’t know what you’re talking about.” – Coyote “Arrogance. The number one cause of death among both peasant and king. Beware its sharp blade.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day… — John Green
Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. — Walter Mosley
They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why… — Ernest Hemingway
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation. — Vladimir Lenin
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking… — Julia Child
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son… — Nelson Mandela
The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the Soviet Union's experience,… — Mao Zedong
We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under the leadership of… — Mao Zedong
I do not have voice for Russian music; I cannot be cute little peasant like in operas of Glinka or Rimsky-Korsakov. I am now never… — Anna Netrebko
I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike. — F. Sionil Jose
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. — Henry IV
Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon. — Saddam Hussein
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center. — Al Lewis
The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there. — Herman Gorter
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son… — Nelson Mandela
That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was,… — Dr Carl Sagan
They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes,… — Luigi Barzini
Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant. — Milla Jovovich
The French peasant cuisine is at the basis of the culinary art. By this I mean it is composed of honest elements that la grande… — Unknown Author

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