West Quotes

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.

My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

In the West, the spirit is separate from the body. In the East these are things that are very real and concrete.

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

I am not a fan of books.

I LOVE Africa in general, South Africa and West Africa. They are both great countries.

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, but because we do not like children.

Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

The recession is over." This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression.

Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the West.

I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.

The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we're asked to be the sheriff.

I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.

Growing up in the church in West Virginia, faith is always there. It's part of the fabric of the culture.

The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to live.

The West appears to have decided for the Ukrainian people what their choice is. The EU does not condemn violent actions in Ukraine which are punishable in the West.

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.

The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.

The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.

I wanted to do something for the minority Muslims living in the West, especially in the UK, to bring up their morale a bit. They need to be proud of their religion

Today the West exists only to bear witness to its own obsolescence.

It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers.

If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.

A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.

The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.

Touch water in the West and you touch everything.

The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.

The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my fish.

Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union.

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.

I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in

In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.

You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'

[on Kendrick Lamar] The new king of the West Coast.