West Coast Mounted

Famous quotes containing the words west, coast and/or mounted:

    “Every other evening around six o’clock he left home and dying dawn saw him hustling home around the lake where the challenging sun flung a flaming sword from east to west across the trembling water.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “What do we want with this vast and worthless area, of this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds, of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs; to what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting and not a harbor in it?”
    —For the State of Kansas, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Just because you live in LA it doesn’t mean you have to dress that way.”
    —Advertising billboard campaign in Los Angeles, mounted by New York fashion house Charivari.