Famous quotes containing the words state and/or line:
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“That’s the down-town frieze,
Principally the church steeple,
A black line beside a white line;
And the stack of the electric plant,
A black line drawn on flat air.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)