Land State Provincial

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

    ““I am of Ireland,
    And the Holy Land of Ireland,
    And time runs on,” cried she.
    “Come out of charity
    And dance with me in Ireland.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell, and what
    should poor Jack Falstaff do in the days in villainy?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “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)