That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
If walls could keep us small peasants would all be tiny and kings as large as giants
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.
Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant.
With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.
The greatest sorrow in the life of a peasant is that his donkey is lost. And the greatest happiness is that he finds it back.
You build a thing of beauty, and then the peasants storm the castle, hooting and chanting and calling you a heretic.
Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.
I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.
I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.
Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon.
I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.
