Common Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The East was no longer a threat to the western world, and when there's nothing to fear we turn our backs, we look elsewhere.…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

Its a strange thing because the West is rooted in a very harsh reality of hard living and scratching out a life for yourself,…

— Colter Wall

People in the East looked toward the West with longing. They would have liked to have the same comforts, the same goods, the same…

— Stefan Heym

“Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries…

— Leo Tolstoy

Someone might say about a person, "Oh, they are a 'Westerner." But who are Westerners? Greek, Bulgarian, German, English, Scandinavian, Spanish, American, Latin. All…

— Burhan Sonmez

“The only difference between the East and the West seems to be that you have ancestors and we are going to be ancestors.”

— Harold Bell Wright

There's one sad truth in life I've foundWhile journeying east and west -The only folks we really woundAre those we love the best.We flatter…

— Ritu Ghatourey

I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn't have the romantic history of the West.

— Robert Taylor

The truth is that there wasn't much competition. There was the East and the West, but there was really no West before us. We…

— DJ Yella

“Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks. People go west when all bets are off:…

— Karen Hines

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

— Patrick deWitt

As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little…

— Jung Chang