Land State Provincial

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

    “We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it—for a little while.”
    —Willa Cather (1873–1947)

    “A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.”
    —Henry Chadwick (b. 1920)

    “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)