Quotes About Peasant Life

#1. I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though she was a singing and dancing European intellectual.

Tom Jaine

#2. Many ... have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

Thomas Hardy

#3. My veracity is dearer to me than my life," said the peasant; "nor would I purchase the one by forfeiting the other.

Horace Walpole

#4. I was as you are now. A peasant. I sought the world. Because the alternative was to spend the rest of my life looking up a plowhorse's backside.

Alan Furst

#5. He said to the cardinal, I'm a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments and crosses of Jesus, lied to me like a heathen Moor. Your sacred office alone will not save your life.

Mario Puzo

#6. The 'noble savage' whom the Populists had seen in the simple peasant was, as Gorky now concluded, no more than a romantic illusion. And the more he experienced the everyday life of the peasant, the more he denounced them as savage and barbaric.

Orlando Figes

#7. Seducing highborn ladies, and raping peasant girls was a lark, but when Piers had suggested murder, he had thought him simply struggling with the frustration of losing for the first time in his life.

Bertrice Small

#8. Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant.

Kahlil Gibran

#9. JEAN
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
HARRINGTON
Don't be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common.

Preston Sturges

#10. 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

#11. Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call 'the mandate of heaven', but life for the peasant changes little.

Kenneth Minogue

#12. Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Lewis Mumford

#13. After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

John Hartford

#14. As a sign of human nature, the pumpkin embodied unbounded lust or lack of civility; as a symbol of a place, it represented the untamed natural bounties of North America; and as an emblem of a way of life, it stood for a rustic peasant existence.

Cindy Ott

#15. Nothing is ever over, nothing is ever ended, and worlds open up within the world we know.

Lee Smith

#16. The CIO needs to be an enterprise 'polyglot,' to master both business language and IT terminology, and beyond.

Pearl Zhu

#17. You've never been a peasant in medieval France, Harry," Bob said. "Life was hard for those people. Never enough food, shelter, medicine. If you could give yourself a fur coat and the ability to go out and hunt your own meat, you would have jumped at the chance, too.

Jim Butcher

#18. Lieutenant Trotta wasn't experienced enough to know that uncouth peasant boys with noble hearts exist in real life and that a lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written.

Joseph Roth

#19. Every personal experience of my life impacts my music. I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back. I often fix it or color it differently or give it in my way, but thats what its about.

Chaka Khan

#20. My life as a princes, or a peasant, is not worth living without you in it.

Victoria Alexander

#21. Within the bowels of these elements, where we are tortured and remain for ever, The Labyrinth hath no limits, nor is circumscribed in one self place; for where we are is the Labyrinth, and where the Labyrinth is, there must we ever be. Hoo.

Catherynne M Valente

#22. Personally, I like films that make me a little bit uncomfortable because I think you're uncomfortable when something is real.

Alice Englert

#23. I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too.

Lee Trevino

#24. Live like a King, but Eat like a Peasant. The secret of long life.

Paul Gitwaza

#25. All finery is a sign of littleness.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#26. You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.

Ben Bernanke

#27. How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.

Oskar Kokoschka

#28. He (Hitler) is thinking about the peasant girls. When they stand in the fields and bend down at their work so that you can see their behinds, that's what he likes, especially when they've got big round ones. That's Hitler's sex life. What a man.

Ernst Rohm

#29. Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I have to read the entire thing 'cause anything can change in a script.

Liana Liberato

#30. Why did *I* lock the door? Why did YOU lock the door? Someone locked the door ...

Michael Frayn

#31. If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday.

Henry IV Of France