Land State Provincial

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

    “The land was ours before we were the land’s.
    She was our land more than a hundred years
    Before we were her people.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

    “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)