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West Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the…
- The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness…
- The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.
- I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east…
- Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the…
- The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
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- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand… — Afrika Bambaataa
- And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to,… — Dave Barry
- I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside,… — Abu Bakar Bashir
- Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken… — Gary Bauer
- February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the… — Xavier Becerra
- It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was. — Buffalo Bill
- My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west. — Buffalo Bill
- I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go… — Ronald Biggs
- But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never… — Buffalo Bill