Land State Provincial

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

    “croppers rotting shacks
    with famine, terror, flood, and plague near by;
    where sentiment and hatred still held sway
    and only bitter land was washed away.”
    —Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    “Men judge by the complexion of the sky
    The state and inclination of the day.”
    —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)