West Virginia Admitted

Famous quotes containing the words west and/or admitted:

“The west was getting out of gold,
The breath of air had died of cold....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don’t seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it’s because we’re engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves ... as supplicants admitted to a shrine.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)