“There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.” PeopleFirstsReasonAmericaSpiritPossibilityEastSomething NewOpennessStemCoastEast CoastPioneeringPioneering Spirit Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen
“Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.” LittlesSometimesAmericaHollywoodTownsWestCoastSmall TownWest Coast Author:Howard Stringer
“In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.” MenMightAmericaOrderBlackRedLakesCoastNeighbourNorth AmericaGreat Lakes Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.” MenStillsGovernmentAmericaPurposeGroupsBritishIgnorantEnlightenedFarmersScholarCoastUp And DownMerchantsNorth America Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it.” MenWarAmericaFightingHistoryMillionsPercentDiedPopulationUsaCivil WarMexicoFloridaCoastAmerican Civil WarCasualtiesTennesseeVermontNew Mexico Author:Bruce Catton
“I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .” AmericaMovingCitiesNew YorkReadyTravelEuropeMovedIslandsNew York CityCoast Author:Spalding Gray