“Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for death, and the opposing hunger for movement, change, instability and risk, which are life. Men came from the east and built these American towns because they wished to go no farther, and the towns they built were shaped by the urge to go onward.” MenHumansTwoWarFormDesireRiskMovementBuiltEssenceTownsLongingHungerEastUrgesStabilityOpposingPermanenceInstability Book:Old Home Town Source: Old Home Town
“From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid.” WellsMadeHandsKidsAgeKnownBoysCrimeSixGunTownsSurpriseWestSizeSpreadEastPocketsLegendsDaringVirginiaColoradoVestsEast And WestRioWest VirginiaColtsWheeling Author:Billy Joel
“When Im in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.” SometimesKidsNaturalWatchesWifeCarFootballTownsMy WifeEastBarsSundayVillageInclinationEnglish FootballMy Wife And KidsEast Village Author:Joe Scarborough
“I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.” GamesSidesAbilityTeamFootballSixSeasonsTownsEastDragonsTailsAthleticInspirational TeamTouchdownsEast SideAthletic Ability Author:LeBron James
“I had been in Chicago for 22 years, and my wife and I didn't want to see another Chicago winter. Its a wonderful town but the winters are brutal. My wife and I are both east coast people and we wanted to live someplace a little bit warmer but didn't want to live way down south. So Delaware seemed like a good compromise.” PeopleWayWantYearsLittlesWantedBitsWifeWonderfulLittle BitTownsSouthWinterMy WifeEastCompromiseChicagoBrutalCoastEast CoastDelaware Author:David Bromberg
“One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion. After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience. We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn't exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.” MindFirstsWellsKindMadeNightBreakAudienceBandSpringTownsCustomersEastConclusionTexasCatastropheCurtainsGigsLoadedCokeLegendaryEast Texas Author:Billy Gibbons
“I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together. Everybody was either somebody from the South or an immigrant from East Europe or from Mexico. And there was one church, and there were four elementary schools. And we were all, pretty much until the end of the war, very, very poor.” LittlesWarEndsSchoolTogetherBlackChurchPoorClassFourHigh SchoolEuropeTownsSouthEastNeighborhoodImmigrantsMexicoWorking ClassElementary School Author:Toni Morrison
“I started in theater when I was 14 in the Henry Street Playhouse on the Lower East Side in New York. You hustle, you beat the sidewalk, the pavement - audition, audition. I just started working around town everywhere. I mean everywhere - the Village, Harlem, you know. Brooklyn Academy Of Music. Just job after job.” KnowsMeanJobsSidesStreetsNew YorkBeatsTheaterTownsEastVillageAuditionsAcademyBrooklynHustleSidewalkPavementHarlemEast Side Author:Jackee Harry
“I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between east and west Germany. It was so strange that roads which used to connect two towns now ended in the middle.” TwoUsedMiddleStrangeGrewGrew UpTownsWestSpendingEastBordersGermanyGrandmotherFarmsMy GrandmotherSpending TimeEast And WestWest Germany Author:Matthea Harvey
“No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.” PeopleThinkingKindBigsRoomsTownsWestMythEastRoofCoastWest CoastEast Coast Author:Tommy Lee Jones
“We spend less time with each other now than we did during the presidency. When you're president, you're usually out and back in the same day - at least I was. I just came from a trip to the Middle East last week, where I was gone for five nights, and when I left, Laura [Bush] was out of town.” LastsNightLeftPresidentGoneFiveWeekMiddleTownsEastMiddle EastPresidencyLaura Author:George W. Bush
“Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.” ChildrenQualityTownsExcitedEastBroadsSuperiorityDistortionOhioInquisitionSwollen Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped the revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn't want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks.” WantIdeasSometimesExistenceRichNiceRevolutionCallingTownsLifetimeEastGoing AwayVillageGraffitiEast Village Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day
“[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the East and West coasts without knowing the state, much less the town or street the house is on.” TryingStatesLightScienceHouseKnowingStreetsDiseaseResearchTownsWestEastRelatedGenesBurnedCoastScratchesBulbsWest CoastLight BulbEast And WestBurned Out Author:Francis Collins