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)