Famous quotes containing the words western world, western and/or world:
“It is the place where all the aspirations of the Western World meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“O western orb sailing the heaven,
Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walked,
As I walked in silence the transparent shadowy night,”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
“People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, wed have to help make it thunder.”
—Georg Büchner (18131837)