Us Westward Expansion Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Custom brings predictability, and predictability carries its own comforts.

Robert James Waller

#3. You look like something the goat dragged in.' 'Cat dragged in,' said Shadow. 'Goat,' said Wednesday. 'Huge rank stinking goat with big teeth.

Neil Gaiman

#4. We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up your cultivation by adding other things.

Li Hongzhi

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

Frank Waters

#6. To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#7. I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

Clarence Thomas

#8. Killing yourself might stop your problems at the moment, but it left everyone who cared about you in as much pain or more than you were in before you offed yourself.

Apryl Baker

#9. But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

Gustave Flaubert

#10. 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

#11. I love South Florida; this is where I am from, so I don't think there is anything more rewarding than knowing that where you grew up is standing behind you and supporting you.

Bailee Madison

#12. By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

Don Feder

#13. On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. 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

#15. It's not even been a two-and-two-make five sort of day, it's more like a two-and-two-make ... fish

Dave McKean

#16. Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety.

Bryant McGill

#17. 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

#18. The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.

Percy Williams Bridgman

#19. I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

Karolina Kurkova

#20. 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

#21. 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