Land State Provincial

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

    “It seems, just now,
    To be happening so very fast;
    Despite all the land left free
    For the first time I feel somehow
    That it isn’t going to last....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all.”
    —Georg Büchner (1813–1837)

    “In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory—horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene—and 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)