Famous quotes containing the words state and/or line:
“But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)