America Quote by Jack Kerouac

I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing…

— Charles Bukowski

The end of the Earth. It's gone. We were too busy saving ourselves, no one saw it go. All those years. All that history…

— Rose Tyler

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

— A. E. Housman

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

— Jack Kerouac

My life was a wandering; I never had a homeland. It was a matter of being constantly tossed about, without rest; nowhere and never…

— Anonymous

I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.

— Pascal Mercier

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

— Mark Twain

The land of unlimited opportunity was for me, for a long time, impossible to reach. The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot…

— Angela Merkel

I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life…

— Sarah Dessen

With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many…

— C. S. Lewis

My land is where my dead lie buried.

— Crazy Horse

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.

— Philipp Meyer