Land State Provincial

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

    “Somewhere over the rainbow
    Way up high,
    There’s a land that I heard of
    Once in a lullaby.”
    —Yip Harburg (1898–1981)

    “When I saw it I was so glad I could not speak. My eyes seemed too little to see it all.... I was a long time without speaking to my friend. To see me always looking and never speaking he thought I had lost my mind. I could not understand where all this could come from.”
    —For the State of Maine, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory—horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene—and 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)