I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

- F. Sionil Jose

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

- Gertrude Stein

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

- Henry David Thoreau

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

- James Earl Jones

To me, the most critical thing in agriculture is investing in the peasant agriculture, transforming peasant agriculture.

- Jakaya Kikwete

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

- Milla Jovovich

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

- Pierre Laval

I like Sicilian food. It's real peasant food.

- Raymond Kelly