Land State Provincial

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

“Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high,
There’s a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.”
—Yip Harburg (1898–1981)

“If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“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)