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)

    “Today democracy, liberty, and equality are words to fool the people. No nation can progress with such ideas. They stand in the way of action. Therefore we frankly abolish them. In the future each man will serve the interest of the state with absolute obedience. Let him who refuses beware.”
    —Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)

    “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)