Western United States Quotes

It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those west of it, when I say you shall not do it!

I'd never really experienced the West before moving to Colorado. The East Coast, where I grew up, has a lot of big cities, like Boston and New York, and is more densely populated, and I instantly fell in love with the big open spaces of the West, where you can see not just for a few miles but for a few hundred miles.

I grew up on a ranch in Walla Walla, Washington. Except for one lawyer, I don't remember anyone in my family being anything else but ranchers.

I grew up in Colorado and spent my summers in Montana as a ranch hand.

Colorado's right next to Utah - you know, Mormon Central.

Greeley does the thinking for the whole West at $2 per year for his paper.

Touch water in the West and you touch everything.

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.

Nothing is more pleasant for me than to be on location in the country that I love, in any of our western landscapes, being out there with a camp outfit and a film company.

I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.

The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.

If I could miracle myself away, I would live out West.

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.