Peasant Quote by Orlando Figes

“The reverence accorded to the composer’s score suggests that it is a sacred object, which is not to be tampered with, whose authority over…

— Christopher Small

I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it…

— Edward Ruscha

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

— Confucius

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Perhaps J. P. Morgan did as a child have very severe feelings of inadequacy, perhaps his father did believe that he would not amount…

— Anonymous

I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all…

— Adam Carolla

“The fields that push up the corn, and the water that rushes down the ravine, the juice of the grape, and the life of…

— Irving Stone

The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant…

— Clement Greenberg

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn