Famous quotes containing the words western world, western and/or world:
“trying to live in the terrible western world
here where to love at alls to be a politician, as to love a poem
is pretentious,”
—Frank OHara (19261966)
“We hold on to hopes for next year every year in western Dakota: hoping that droughts will end; hoping that our crops wont be hailed out in the few rainstorms that come; hoping that it wont be too windy on the day we harvest, blowing away five bushels an acre; hoping ... that if we get a fair crop, well be able to get a fair price for it. Sometimes survival is the only blessing that the terrifying angel of the Plains bestows.”
—Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)
“One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.”
—Jerome S. Bruner (20th century)