Colony Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“it is the West’s provincialism, which leads it to perceive the rest of the continent as a failed copy of itself”

— Andrzej Stasiuk

I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than to see…

— Wallace Stegner

The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

My mother came from a very affluent background, very Westernized, while my father was more Eastern. So I've had a very good blend of…

— Amitabh Bachchan

The East was no longer a threat to the western world, and when there's nothing to fear we turn our backs, we look elsewhere.…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

— Tom Mix

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

— Ameen Rihani

Long a student and admirer of the American West, its history, its art, its culture, its cast of personalities, I'm aware that in the…

— Philip Anschutz

Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ...…

— Walter Kirn

“Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks. People go west when all bets are off:…

— Karen Hines

“As a newcomer I felt that this was indeed a blessed place, capable of unabashedly advertising its flaws, fearing no ridicule and no criticism.…

— Andrei Codrescu

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

— Nelson Mandela