Quotes About Westward Expansion

#1. The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

Frank Waters

#2. Its real symbolism is not to the westward expansion of the nineteenth century, but to the power and dominance of the United States in the twentieth century.

Tracy Campbell

#3. When a country goes from a population of 3 million to a population of 300 million (to say nothing of the radical increase in territory owing to westward expansion in the nineteenth century), it is clearly no longer the same country.

Thomas Piketty

#4. After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

Russ Carnahan

#5. Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.

Sarah Zettel

#6. All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.

Sarah Zettel

#7. No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize,

Julia Child

#8. The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

Martin Filler

#9. I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie.

Dhani Harrison

#10. The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

Leonard Cohen

#11. For the most part, I try to stay away from high fructose corn syrup and citric acid.

Nikki Reed

#12. If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea; and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains.

Miyamoto Musashi

#13. Trying to support you with their gaze as if a gaze could ever support anyone!

Paulo Coelho

#14. It had been so long since i'd let myself fall for anybody.

Katie McGarry

#15. Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

Rick Riordan

#16. This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have bowed me upon my knees in tears.

Oswald J. Smith

#17. You think anything is possible. But that isn't so. The world closes tight around this miracle soon enough; and you don't hope for other miracles.

Anne Rice

#18. Our suffering is often the deep soul groaning for the purposes of God in and through us. Mission cannot be fulfilled without love, and we cannot love without groaning and suffering over the brokenness in others' lives. As a result, we cannot accomplish our mission without suffering.

Gregory Beale

#19. On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar, and here's my prediction: Bush gets voted off.

Craig Kilborn

#20. I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

Malorie Blackman

#21. Education is the progressive unfolding of our own beauty with the light of knowledge like the blooming of a flower.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Most pedophiles are straight not gay.

Steven Petrow