Famous quotes containing the words land, state and/or provincial:
“Listen, thats the one that done it. The dusters. They started it anyways. Blowin like this year after year. Blowin the land away. Blowin the crops away. Blowin us away now.”
—Nunnally Johnson (18971977)
“Well, well, he said to himself, you are not in Belgium; let us begin our apprenticeship in earnest, and so long as we are in the woods, howl heartily with the wolves.”
—For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadnt developed space travel were mere prehistoryhorse-shoe crabs of the cosmic sceneand 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)
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