Famous quotes containing the words eastern, north and/or america:
“My second husband was an American. We traveled all over the world and everywhere we went he would say to people, I am an American. I am an American. They finally shot him in one of those Eastern countries.”
—John Paxton (19111985)
“Come see the north winds masonry.
Out of an unseen quarry evermore
Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
Curves his white bastions with projected roof”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The example of America must be the example, not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because it is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.”
—Woodrow Wilson (18561924)