Land State Provincial

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

    “In the hollow Lotos land to live and lie reclined
    On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “The State never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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