Land State Provincial

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

    “If a man cheats the land, the land will cheat his belly.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.”
    —Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948)

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