Fading West Quotes

#1. Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#2. When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Robin Hobb

#3. Rhythm? Not only do I have to defy gravity. I have to have rhythm while I do it?

Kristin Walker

#4. Wei is like an enigma wrapped in a puzzle hidden in the most intricate maze of the world

Michele Amitrani

#5. On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

Mark Steyn

#6. A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.

Brenda Lee

#7. There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, No I never saw them at all, Until there was you.

Meredith Willson

#8. The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

Matthew Simpson

#9. Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the 'human stratum' may not be homogeneous.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#10. Hyacinth bean and papayas, long vines, deep roots. Palm trees outside the garden walls, with deep roots, stand a thousand years.

Lisa See

#11. The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.

Caitlyn Jenner

#12. A young Harvard student, traveled west to Oklahoma to live among the Kiowa and participate in the solemn rites of the peyote cult. In one photograph the land appears as a blur of dust, the sky fading to gray, the air darkened by soil worked loose by the wind, the farmhouses

Wade Davis