Thatched Hut Hand

Famous quotes containing the words thatched, hut and/or hand:

“Gold or silver mansions are not as good as one’s own thatched house.”
—Chinese proverb.

“There is hardly a pioneer’s hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)