Westward Quotes

27 quotes by 22 authors

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President… — Russ Carnahan
Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the blessed… — Henry Van Dyke
According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that… — Herbert Wind
In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright. — Arthur Hugh Clough
Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of… — Frederick Jackson Turner
In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that… — William Bligh
All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System… — Sarah Zettel
Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the… — Sarah Zettel
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history. — Frank Waters
Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had… — Ferdinand Columbus
Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest… — George Berkeley
Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots,… — Charles Sturt
Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have… — Josiah Strong
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… — Henry David Thoreau
Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free. — Henry David Thoreau
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in,… — Arthur Hugh Clough
Westward the star of empire takes its way. — John Quincy Adams
But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible… — Rachel Carson
American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The… — David Mamet
The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times… — John Moody

Who Wrote These Westward Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 27 Westward Quotes as follows: