Quotes of: Western-culture Keyword

Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

Edward James Olmos

Education is neither eastern nor western.

Malala Yousafzai

I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.

Steve Cropper

I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life.

Dyan Cannon

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.

Barry Pepper

In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

Om Puri

There's only two kinds of music I don't like... Country and Western.

Bobby Heenan

Lester Siegel: It's got horses in it, it's a Western.

Argo

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

Armand Assante

Tolstoy does not tell us how things look to the author; he tells us how they look to the characters. In short, he does not use simile and metaphor. (That astonishing assertion in Wood’s review is what got me started reading Tolstoy in the first pla...

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

Beside us lies a fair-headed recruit in utter terror. He has buried his face in his hands, his helmet has fallen off. I fish hold of it and try to put it back on his head. He looks up, pushes the helmet off and like a child creeps under my arm, his h...

All Quiet on the Western Front

Yet despite...accommodations with commerce, Möser regarded the market as primarily a threat--to the artisanal citizens of the town, to the traditional wants of the peasantry, and to the political structure to society, since it created a growing clas...

The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought

That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is only because we accept as real the boundary line b...

No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth

Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their...

Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World

Appreciation for cultural diversity is essential for our co-existence.

Beautiful Quotes

The end of ourselves is the beginning of God

The 180 Degree Christian: Serving Jesus in a Culture of Excess

A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter.

The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide

The desire to be cool is—ultimately—the desire to be rescued.

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

I celebrated my 18th birthday in Japan, which was quite memorable; I was quite fascinated by the different traditions and the culture; it was so completely different to Australian culture.

Miranda Kerr

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

Norman Mailer

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.

Pat Metheny