Famous quotes containing the words land, state and/or provincial:
“We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own itfor a little while.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)
“We hear the Secretary of State boasting of his brinkmanshipthe art of bringing us to the edge of the abyss.”
—Adlai Stevenson (19001965)
“In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadnt developed space travel were mere prehistoryhorse-shoe crabs of the cosmic sceneand something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
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