I always thought millennials are going westward, and they probably won't understand vernacular poetry. — Ayushmann Khurrana Copy Share Image
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history. — Frank Waters Copy Share Image
Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to… — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
Our great national drama was a westward expansion that conquered a native population rather than coexisting with it. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I am, a shadow that grows longer as the sun moves, drawn out on a thread of wonder. If I bear burdens… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“We go eastward to realize history, and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history. — Frank Waters Copy Share Image
