Famous quotes containing the words state and/or line:
“All oppression creates a state of war.”
—Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986)
“Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)