Quotes About East

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

this is the only ship going east this time of the year, but there's a thousand coming west—what's a fair wind for us is a head wind to them—the Almighty's blowing a fair wind for a thousand vessels, and this tribe wants him to turn it clear around so as to accommodate one—and she a steamship at that! It ain't good sense, it ain't good reason, it ain't good Christianity, it ain't common human charity.

The Intelligence Services of East and West have given Europe over fifty years of peace - the longest the Continent has ever known. They did so by keeping their leaders from being surprised.

The only sign of war was a cloud of dust migrating from east to west. It looked through the windows, trying to find a way inside, and as it simultaneously thickened and spread, it turned the trail of humans into apparitions.

In 1960 an anecdote in the form of an imaginary dialogue circulated in the satellite countries of the East: 'Tell me, Comrade, what is capitalism?' 'The exploitation of man by man.' 'And what is Communism?' 'The reverse.

Nicholas Nabokov's first wife did all in her power to make the new arrivals comfortable, arranging for them to occupy the flat across the hall in her East Sixty-first Street brownstone until the Tolstoy Foundation located a summer sublet on upper Madison Avenue.

It was here that Euday caught up with her. He said, "You notice the graves all face to the east?" She hadn't, but they did. She said, "What's the reason for that?" "So their spirits could fly home to Africa.

The sunlight pouring in the east window came through her lids and made a dark red beet soup that moved with the rhythm of her heart...

many devout Muslims, particularly in the east, understood that attacking helpless people, nonbelievers or not, was contrary to the tenets of Islam. Still, a vast number of Muslims saw the pronouncement of jihad as an endorsement for killing and looting.

We're walking down to the east side of the Model Boating Pond because I reckon there'll be fewer people to notice that I'm carrying a talking fox around my neck.

New York is always claiming East, and Los Angeles is always claiming West. It's in everything: acting, hip-hop, sports. But I love it. That rivalry makes you work harder.

I was born there and I grew up in East L.A., not Hollywood.

Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.

blue rice bowl with the white rabbit painted on it.

An east wind blew from the City: it had the stone-cold of big business blocks and banks.

Economic, political and military intervention following the first world war is frequently blamed for current friction between east and west.

A Strange Eastern Light "During the time of King Herod, Wise Men from the east came and asked, 'Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.'" —Matthew 2:1

Down the dirty old street The Angel of the East is calling And with a trembling hand I open up a can I can hear a baby bawling

North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.

Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama.

he had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West.

Thanks to a newly perfected technology, the camel, the people of the Arabian Peninsula found themselves well placed to profit from trade between East and West.