Eastern Quotes

298 Eastern quotes by 271 unique authors

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight. — Rudyard Kipling
As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to both… — Jerry Brown
I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village. — Nicola Formichetti
I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of… — Sufjan Stevens
My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our… — Bryan Stevenson
When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University. — Julia Bacha
Chaga is significant in ethnomycology, forest ecology, and increasingly in pharmacognosy. Its long-term human use and cultural eastern European and Russian acceptance should awaken serious… — Paul Stamets
I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails… — Monica Raymund
I do fairly represent Middle Eastern women. — Shohreh Aghdashloo
North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989. — Douglas Coupland
To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He… — Delmore Schwartz
Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of Virginia,… — Lee Smith
I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941. — F. Sionil Jose
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life. — F. Sionil Jose
Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I… — Hamdi Ulukaya
In the Middle Eastern culture, it is looked upon with very high regard to get the best deal possible, no matter what it takes, and… — Duncan Hunter
In the 1980s, in the communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government. You had to register… — Mikko Hypponen
Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He… — Noam Chomsky
From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement,… — Elliott Abrams
The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many. — Doris Duke
Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the… — Michael Oren
A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer. — Michael Mina
I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child soldiers in Northern… — John Prendergast
Education is neither eastern nor western. — Malala Yousafzai

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