Eastward Quotes

#1. Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. We're screwed," Arriane said, kicking a cloud in frustration. She glared at its wispy tendrils, which ambled eastward, unaffected. "That's never as satisfying as I think it's going to be.

Lauren Kate

#3. A Zen master once said, "To go eastward one mile is to go westward one mile." This is vital freedom. We should acquire this kind of perfect freedom.

Shunryu Suzuki

#4. California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#5. Wanderers eastward, wanderers west,
Know you why you cannot rest?
'Tis that every mother's son
Travails with a skeleton.
Lie down in the bed of dust;
Bear the fruit that bear you must;
Bring the eternal seed to light,
And morn is all the same as night.

A.E. Housman

#6. Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

Herman Melville

#7. ...the first Allied troops cantered eastward in the rollicking high spirits obligatory at the beginning of all military debacles.

Rick Atkinson

#8. Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.

Francis Xavier

#9. A moment later, the world's first all-purpose human being strode eastward, whistling.
'A tasty world,' it reflected cheerfully. 'A very tasty world.'
'You said it, Cornelius!

Michael Moorcock

#10. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. The event had been organized by the International Workers of the World (IWW), also known as the "Wobblies," who had engaged in protests across America, sweeping eastward from the Rocky Mountain states,

Stephen Puleo

#12. Through the white snow-gate of our ampitheatre, as through a frame we looked eastward upon the summit group; not a tree, not a vestige of vegetation in sight,-sky, snow and granite the only elements in this wild picture.

Clarence King

#13. Coach now the way you want to coach 10 years from now.

Jerry Krause

#14. Raven Stone and Don Carson are the stupidest fucking people on the planet because their mothers didn't breastfeed them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#15. I work steadily, and I always thank the process. Whether

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. Why settle for being a carbon copy; when you were created to be an original?

James A. Jimason

#17. Robert Redford is like cheese: he ages well and I want to put him in my mouth.

T.J. Klune

#18. It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a kid. Guys like that, they were hilarious and didn't have to be super vile or X-rated.

Harland Williams

#19. I was a bit shut down by a lot of the snarkiness and biliousness in some of the poetry blogs. I was tired of aesthetic wars that weren't productive and were becoming mean-spirited. I was probably overworked as well, so I stopped reading and writing for about a year.

Simone Muench

#20. I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

Gish Jen

#21. Men always look so innocent when they're asleep.

M.L. Buchman