West Quotes · Page 29

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

— Jack Kerouac

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too…

— Rudyard Kipling

There is absolutely no solidarity in the West towards its own victims, and the recent 'refugee crises' is direct proof of it.

— Andre Vltchek

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

— Paddy Ashdown

“Never again, Izzy West. I will never again let anyone take you from me, or anything from us.”

— Harper Sloan

I can't imagine life without Poland. I find it very hard to find a place for myself in the West.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

— Rumi

A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely…

— J. Frank Dobie

As for a climactic conflict between a once-Christian West and an Islamic world that is growing in numbers and advancing inexorably into…

— Pat Buchanan

The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory.…

— Mitch Kapor

I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably…

— Haruki Murakami

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed…

— Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating…

— Leigh Steinberg

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been…

— Bill Cowher

We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely…

— Carl Rogers

And the fact that the Muslim world, over the course of a decade, rallied and defeated a superpower is an extraordinary symbol…

— Michael Scheuer

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged…

— Wallace Stegner

Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still…

— David Mitchell

Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan…

— Cecelia Ahern

Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of…

— Mark Steyn

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for…

— Malcolm X

By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral…

— Muhammad Asad

I actually love 'West Side Story.' I think it's an amazing film to watch.

— Martin Donovan

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts.

— Kanye West

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

— Maya Angelou

I've seen Jay-Z and Kanye West. I've seen actors like Tom Hanks and Nicholas Cage.

— Spencer Paysinger

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.

— Tessa Thompson

Bold has been my message to the people of the west, bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman.

— Swami Vivekananda

Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California.

— Ben Lerner

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

— Lafcadio Hearn

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

— William Shakespeare

[I like in Kanye West] confidence in him, but also his aggressiveness, ambition and charisma.

— Young Thug

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

— Marian McPartland

Most people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically.

— Irvine Welsh

For Democrats, nothing is any less complex than a 'West Wing' episode.

— Kevin Bleyer

West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

— Vincente Minnelli

I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.

— Paris Hilton