Famous quotes containing the words state and/or line:
“The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“When I had mapped the pond ... I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth exactly at the point of greatest depth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)