Land State Provincial

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

    “We were uncertain whether the water floated the land, or the land held the water in its bosom. It was such a season, in short, as that in which one of our Concord poets sailed on its stream, and sung its quiet glories.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)

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