Go West Young Man Quotes

#1. Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

Horace Greeley

#2. For a time, Greeley seemed to be following the historic advice he had once given young Josiah Grinnell: "Go West, young man, go West.

Harold Holzer

#3. Go West, young man.

Aaron Burr

#4. The idea to go West just fell into my lap from the sky. Go west, young man. That's how the best ideas happen. Just out of nowhere. When you're not even thinking. Like they've been created for you and you just have to reach out and grab them before someone else does.

Shannon Mullen

#5. Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

Horace Greeley

#6. If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.

Lee Friedlander

#7. It's impossible to truly love someone without believing that there is a God who made that person just for you.

K.S. Haigwood

#8. My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

Cornel West

#9. West Young. My West Young. The guy who fought for me when Conner and his friend tried to jump me. The guy who took on a fight to help save my family. The guy who held me while I mourned my own losses. That's West Young. The man I'm falling for.

Katie McGarry

#10. When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.

Roselyn Sanchez

#11. We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

#12. A lot of the time when I go to church, people want to take pictures. They want you to sign autographs. So I don't go all the time. I go once in a blue moon. Every once in a blue moon.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#13. I love to slip into the bookstore. It is my haven. I don't have to prove myself there.

Deborah Meyler

#14. My sisters are stronger and my brother's bigger than me.

Adam Sandler

#15. Man has tried his suicide with bigotry and hate, but in the end he'll kill himself with nothing but his waste.

Roger McGuinn

#16. We were young then, and the West was young, with the land broad and bright before us. We knew, whatever the truth was, that every horse could be ridden, every man whipped, every girl loved.

Louis L'Amour

#17. If you look at the great Westerns, and at Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology, they all contain elements in common: a harsh landscape; demons or outlaws trying to stop or kill the protagonist; and there are mythical legends at their core, innate in all cultures.

Simon Toyne

#18. Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

Hugh Prather

#19. For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.

Vita Sackville-West

#20. To write what you think is to think what you write. Leave those of hollow to their dust. They are but sorry things.

D.A. Botta

#21. You're tall, young man."

"Yes, I am."

"How long have you been that tall?"

"Um . . ." He smiled, and I could tell he was trying not to laugh. "A while now.

Kasie West

#22. Yesterday in the restaurant, she'd seen his sex appeal and roughness. At her house, she'd seen his danger. This morning, at the river, she'd seen his beauty and teasing, and again that danger.
Of all of them, the tenderness she saw now was the most compelling. And terrifying.

Barbara Samuel

#23. Do you think I want to spend my life with a man who could so easily abandon his own child? What if we did go west and had a child? If you saw some sweet young thing, maybe you'd run off with her and leave our child.

Jude Deveraux

#24. He lay watching the kid. He was from a prominent Kentucky family and had attended Transylvania College and like many another young man of his class he'd gone west because of a woman.

Cormac McCarthy

#25. I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Mae West

#26. I have observed that it is no longer possible for one young man to speak unwarily to another not known to him, except in certain sections of the South and West, and certainly not with a book in his hand.

Walker Percy

#27. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart, it will always be yours.

Stephanie Meyer

#28. If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

Horace Greeley

#29. Under certain conditions, index numbers may do very useful service as an aid to investigation into the history and statistics of prices; for the extension of the theory of the nature and value of money they are unfortunately not very important.

Ludwig Von Mises