West Quotes

1578 West quotes by 1160 unique authors

When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies, the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they… — Mike Harding
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which… — Amy Chua
The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to… — Amiri Baraka
What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from… — Leo Tolstoy
I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of… — Cass Gilbert
Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary… — Edwin O. Reischauer
What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs in the war… — Glenn Greenwald
By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the… — Muhammad Asad
Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonly encounter in… — Hooman Majd
I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term,… — Glenn Turner
I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from… — Wilfrid Sheed
We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times… — Jimmy Carter
I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him… — Jamie Foxx
My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do… — Thomas Campion
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport… — George Steiner
I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom… — Questlove
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. — Viktor E. Frankl
I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West… — Michael Franti
I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska. — Charles Frazier
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi
Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners… — Daniel Goleman
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children,… — Germaine Greer
It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west… — Lady Gregory
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved… — Gary Gygax
I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran… — Christopher Columbus

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