East Quotes - page 6

One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of. (Fatema Mernissi)
We must become so strong and must so ruthlessly weaken our opponents that no enemy will ever dare to attack us again. To achieve this a modification of frontiers in the west as in the east is essential. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Thanks to Twitter, I learn about the revolutions in the Middle East via Arab activists and writers, not just from American foreign correspondents. View quote
Jacob Weisberg
I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most useful equipment I acquired in that time is a lack of preciousness about the act of writing. A reporter must write. There must be a story. The mot juste unarriving? Tell that to your desk. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded. View quote
Jessie Burton
I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida. View quote
Don Winslow
After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning. View quote
Casey Affleck
You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany. View quote
Kim Dae-jung
But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins. View quote
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election. View quote
Adam Michnik
It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole. (Christopher Dawson)
Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is. View quote
Marsha Blackburn
I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that. View quote
Edward G. Robinson
It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen. View quote
Forest Whitaker
I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. View quote
Carroll Shelby
The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges. View quote
Alcee Hastings
I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think. View quote
Alexandra Wentworth
Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get. View quote
Angie Everhart
I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess. View quote
Anthony Michael Hall
It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us. View quote
Asghar Farhadi
Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views. (Al-Waleed bin Talal)
I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other. View quote
Bill Griffith
Back then, as a kid, you made a choice of who you liked, and it was either us or 'Take That.' And if you liked 'East 17', it showed you knew what was going on, you were clued up, had better taste in music. View quote
Brian Harvey
It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show. View quote
Buffalo Bill
I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east. View quote
Burl Ives