Land State Provincial

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

    “The impersonal insensitive friendliness which takes the place of ceremony in that land of waifs and strays.”
    —Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

    “Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS—our inferior one varies with the place.”
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

    “The dead level of provincial existence.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)