Thatched Quotes

#1. From a lofty perch Tarzan viewed the village of thatched huts across the intervening plantation.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#2. Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young.

E. O. Wilson

#3. Hi! My little hut
Is newly-thatched I see ...
Blue morning-glories

Kobayashi Issa

#4. Besides God, there is no glory above coming from humble beginnings, from sleeping under a porous grass thatched mud hut to rising above and beyond tabernacles of greatness

Thabo Katlholo

#5. Hogsmeade looked like a Christmas card; the little thatched cottages and shops were all covered in a layer of crisp snow; there were holly wreaths on the doors and strings of enchanted candles hanging in the trees.

J.K. Rowling

#6. In this thatched hut there ought not to be a speck of dust of any kind; both master and visitors are expected to be on terms of absolute sincerity; no ordinary measures of proportion or etiquette or conventionalism are to be followed.

Sen No Rikyu

#7. He stepped beside me and encircled my shoulders with the comfort of his arm, protecting me from Joel, from everything. With him I'd live in a thatched hut, a tent, a cave. He gave me strength.

V.C. Andrews

#8. It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.

Bion Of Borysthenes

#9. Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk.

Fujiwara No Teika

#10. An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.

Maria Mitchell

#11. My thatched hut;
the whole sky Is its roof
The mountains are its hedge,
And it has the sea for a garden.
I'm inside with nothing at all,
Not even a bag,
And yet there are visitors who say "
It's hidden behind a bamboo door"
- Muso Soseki

Muso Soseki

#12. At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.

Cherie Lunghi

#13. Each lift of his eyes, each parting of the thatched lip from the clean-shaven, must prelude the tenderness that kills the Monk and the Beast at a single blow.

E. M. Forster

#14. Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

Derek Walcott

#15. Her father had built from ax-hewn planks thatched with bamboo and grass. The floor was dirt, but it was clean. Her mother, Foua, sprinkled it regularly with

Anne Fadiman

#16. Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.

John Gummer

#17. I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.

Oscar Wilde

#18. As rain pours through poorly thatched houses, so does desire penetrate an undeveloped mind.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#19. An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.

John Howard Payne

#20. Did you know they call the tower the "Iron Lady"? Hmm. Isn't that Margaret Thatched called that, too? Frankly, they don't look anything alike to me. For one thing, Maggie has two legs, and the Parisian Iron Lady has four on the floor, like me.

Sheron Long

#21. Cyril, church warden and lead tenor in the choir, lives with mother, banned from unsupervised contact with schoolchildren; Harold, drunk dentist, early retirement, pretty thatched cottage off the Bodmin road, one son in rehab, wife in the bin.

John Le Carre

#22. They say you thatched your roof and now you must not run out of your house if it rains.

Barbara Kingsolver

#23. Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace
a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.

Edward Abbey

#24. If education is in your heart, it becomes your light. You will be able to find success and beauty wherever you go in life.

Debasish Mridha

#25. When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.

Kristen Wiig

#26. People don't realize how much fun it is to be depressed.

Chris Cornell

#27. I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

Anna Friel

#28. Only the anointing of the Holy Spirit can destroy the yoke and take away the burden.

Sunday Adelaja

#29. Every junkie is like a setting sun.

Neil Young

#30. Until a seed falls to the ground and dies, it does not become a tree that later yields many fruits and multitude of seeds. We must embrace the thought of death for us to have greater lives.

Sunday Adelaja

#31. Jewish vampires: Crosses & holy water won't hurt me whatcha gonna try next?

Tasha Turner

#32. Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

Seneca The Younger

#33. Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

William Jennings Bryan

#34. Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he has injured you

Henry Fielding