Land State Provincial

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

    “Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
    The speculating rooks at their nests cawed”
    —Edward Thomas (1878–1917)

    “What should concern Massachusetts is not the Nebraska Bill, nor the Fugitive Slave Bill, but her own slaveholding and servility. Let the State dissolve her union with the slaveholder.... Let each inhabitant of the State dissolve his union with her, as long as she delays to do her duty.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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