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Quotes About East

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.
~ John Moody
The farm is one field to the east of the railroad track that used to connect New Orleans with Chicago. The track runs beside Highway 45, an old U.S. route that unites Chicago with Mobile, Alabama.
~ Bobbie Ann Mason
The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity.
~ Dylan Moran
The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him.
~ George A. Moore
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
~ Taslima Nasrin
Naval Station Mayport and Naval Air Station Jacksonville are the East Coast home for the MH-60Rs, and the nation's P-8A fleet and Triton operations facility are based at Naval Air Station Jacksonville.
~ Ander Crenshaw
Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee; And was the safeguard of the West: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free; No guile seduced, no force could violate; And, when She took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea.
~ Thomas F. Madden
10. "Soon after the birth of Crishna, the holy Indian prophet Nared, hearing of the fame of the infant Crishna, pays him a visit at Gokul, examines the stars, and declares him to be of celestial descent." [279:13] 10. "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, behold, there came wise men from the East, saying: Where is he that is born King of the Jews, for we have seen his star in the East and have come to worship him." [279:14] 11.
~ Thomas William Doane
Asia is the unifying one, while the West is the destructive other.
~ Thorsten J. Pattberg
The East is more inductive, while the West is more deductive.
~ Thorsten J. Pattberg
Once our carrier fleet went all nuclear in 2005, we went from having two aircraft carrier homeports on the East Coast to one.
~ Ander Crenshaw
Evet, bana göre buras?, yani doÄŸu, karanl???n ve köleliÄŸin ülkesidir. Bundan ne demek istediÄŸimi anlatm??t?m. Bundan burada insanlar?n özgür olmad???n?, biraz metafizik bir dille söylersek, burada ruhlar?n tutsak olduÄŸunu söylemek istiyorum.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Sibel, Bat? d??? ülkelerin, özellikle İslam ülkelerinin burjuvalar?n?n yerinde sezgisiyle, psikanalizi aile içi dayan??ma ve s?r paylaÅŸma yoluyla tedavi al??kanl??? olmayan Bat?l?lar için icat edilmiÅŸ bilimsel bir s?r verme ritüeli olarak görürdü.
~ Orhan Pamuk
T?pk? muhteÅŸem bir Despot gibi DoÄŸu, güce ve göz kamaÅŸt?ran ?????yla insanlar? yere çalr, insan orada daha yürümeyi öÄŸrenmeden diz çökmek, konuÅŸmay? öÄŸrenmeden dua etmek zorunda kal?r.
~ Orhan Pamuk
To God belongs the East and the West ,' I said in Arabic like the late Enishte.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Gentilly is swept fitfully by desire and by an east wind from the burning swamps at Chef Menteur.
~ Walker Percy
I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness.
~ Walt Whitman
TO THE EAST AND TO THE WEST. To the East and to the West, To the man of the Seaside State and of Pennsylvania, To the Kanadian of the north, to the Southerner I love, These with perfect trust to depict you as myself, the germs are in all men, I believe the main purport of these States is to found a superb friendship, exaltè, previously unknown, Because I perceive it waits, and has been always waiting, latent in all men.
~ Walt Whitman
Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.
~ Chester A. Arthur
Darkness turned on her pillow white; A star serenely shone; Deeply, deeply into the night Cut the sword of dawn. Over the snow the pale east threw Abroach where daylight broke, Crimson stains on the abbey panes Above the hamlet smoke...
~ John Davidson, "Winter"
Now ruddy Morn purpled the glowing East...
~ Samuel Wesley
Once again, Rommel took my arm. "Luck, one day you will think of my words. The threat to Europe and to our civilized world will come from the east. If the peoples of Europe fail to join forces to meet that threat, western Europe will have lost. At the moment, I see only one 'warrior' prepared to champion a united Europe: Churchill!
~ Hans von Luck
The only difference between the East and the West seems to be that you have ancestors and we are going to be ancestors.
~ Harold Bell Wright
I am informed by veterans of the Lower East Side that decalcomania pictures were called "cockamamies" because no one knew how to spell "decalcomania.
~ Leo Rosten