Famous quotes containing the words western, washington and/or state:
“Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which it is destined to receive thence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“You men have proved that PT boats have some value in this war. Washington wants you back in the States to build them up. Those are my orders.”
—Frank W. Wead (1895?1947)
“Though seen but once, it helps to wash out State Street and the engines soot.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)