Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories

Famous quotes containing the words crown and/or territories:

    A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
    Bible: New Testament Revelation 12:1.

    For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world into which I make occasional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)