Land State Provincial

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

    ““The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
    The desert sighs in the bed,
    And the crack in the tea-cup opens
    A lane to the land of the dead.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “Cole’s Hill was the scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the first year of the settlement. Corn was planted over their graves so that the Indians should not know how many of their number had perished.”
    —For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

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