Famous quotes containing the words west and/or side:
“It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.”
—For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“It seems incredible, and I love them no less; and I can say that I would rather die than see any diminution of it on one side or the other.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)