Land State Provincial

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

    “They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    “D--n me, stranger, ef you can’t stay as long as you please, and I’ll give you plenty to eat and drink. Play away, stranger, you kin sleep on the dry spot tonight!”
    —Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

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