Land State Provincial

Famous quotes containing the words land, state and/or provincial:

    “But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 7:3.

    “If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.”
    —Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

    “The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa’s temple at Rome.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)