West Quotes

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.

Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West.

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years.

Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

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

I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

I've worked in the Inuit hamlets of the west coast of Hudson Bay since 1994. Over that time I've been very moved by both the pace of social change there - the loss of traditional ways of seeing the world, the affinity for and comfort with the land - and by the social disarray that change of this pace produces.

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

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.

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

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.

The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.

The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.

Monterey, I remember, but I seem to remember the Fillmore West, that we played the week before Monterey. That was much more memorable for me. The first time in San Francisco. They were good gigs.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.