About Quote by Philipp Meyer

When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as…

— Philipp Meyer

America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

“There is no one story that will replace the American dream, but stories like this one—and there are thousands—can inform the myth or myths…

— Carolyn Baker

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…

— Tommy Lee Jones

Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the…

— Jane Caputi

What Westerns did was to take a world and mythologise it.

— Steven Knight

The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the origins of…

— Christopher Hitchens

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

— Kiefer Sutherland

We are deeply conscious of the fact that our north and west must be developed.

— Anonymous

There are so many myths about us.

— Steve Lukather