Rural Peasants Quotes

#1. It's also important to realize that healing is something we receive and keep by faith.

Paul Silway

#2. That's a really good question - what is it like living with a writer? I guess it depends on the writer. You know what? They live in a fantasy world a lot of the time. My husband lives in a fantasy world.

Rene Russo

#3. The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human personality and reflect the level of consciousness evolution of our species.

Stanislav Grof

#4. Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.

Ma Jian

#5. To rely on the peasants, build rural base areas and use the countryside to encircle and finally capture the cities - such was the way to victory in the Chinese revolution.

Lin Biao

#6. As I walked along that path,

I felt drawn from myself, elated,

struck stupidly good for a moment

by the extravagant beauty of the world.

Garth Greenwell

#7. The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.

Robert M. Pirsig

#8. Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as well as invariant, may be involved in the expression of the content.", "Analysis of the Poetic Text.

Yuri Lotman

#9. Passion feels very democratic. It is the people's talent, available to all. It's also mostly bullshit.

Scott Adams

#10. I'd been doing everything to please everyone else and some imaginary me.

Jolene Stockman

#11. Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid.

Dwayne Hickman

#12. We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Eric Hoffer

#13. I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.

Barbara Hulanicki

#14. The time it took to prepare didn't matter, because there is no such thing as wasted time in the kitchen
rather that is where we go to recover lost time.

Laura Esquivel

#15. I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

Barry Sheene

#16. The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#17. My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.

James Wolk

#18. It lifts my spirits to see the statues of mothers, working women, and female peasants. These respectful and well-maintained tributes to women make the day special for me; this art is a lasting reminder that women matter in these rural Spanish towns and that women's contributions are remembered.

Jane V. Blanchard