West Quotes - Page 39

• Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Heart, Names

  Aldous Huxley (1922). “Crome Yellow”

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• The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Giving Up, Men, White

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• Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mother, Writing, Wind

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• Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down.

  Sarah Hanson-Young

  House, Fleeing, Window

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• As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Girl, Men, Trying

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• Nature, they say, doth dote,
  And cannot make a man
  Save on some worn-out plan
  Repeating us by rote:
  For him her Old World moulds aside she threw
  And, choosing sweet clay from the breast
  Of the unexhausted West,
  With stuff untainted shaped a hero new.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sweet, Hero, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431

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• The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather; to the wise man it is the desired port where he moors his bark gladly, as in some quiet haven of the Fortunate Isles; it is the golden west into which his sun sinks, and, sinking, casts back a glory upon the leaden cloud-tack which had darkly besieged his day.

  James Russell Lowell

  Death, Wise, Country

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.111

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• The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.

  Maya Angelou

  Night, Hair, Dresses

  Maya Angelou (2010). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, p.3, Vintage

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• All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.

  Charles Kingsley

  Book, Autumn, Bridges

  Charles Kingsley (1871). “Westward Ho! Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Bourrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth”, p.1

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• We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in its benignest moods; but there are seasons when I delight to feel its breath upon my cheek, though it be never advisable to throw open my bosom and take it into my heart, as I would its gentle sisters of the south and west.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Thinking, Wind

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.321, e-artnow

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• Come, evening, once again, season of peace;
  Return, sweet evening, and continue long!
  Methinks I see thee in the streaky west,
  With matron step, slow moving, while the night
  Treads on thy sweeping train; one hand employ'd
  In letting fall the curtain of repose
  On bird and beast, the other charged for man
  With sweet oblivion of the cares of day.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Moving, Fall

  William Cowper, James Montgomery (1859). “Poems ... With an introductory essay by James Montgomery. [With plates.]”, p.215

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• The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

  Mother Teresa

  India, Poverty, Difficult

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• Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Comfort, Cynicism

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sun
  But they look to the West, to the crimson West, for the things that are done, are done.

  Douglas Malloch

  Character, Men, Light

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• Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

  Shana Alexander

  Home, California, People

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• Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.

  Joan Didion

  Iowa, Land, California

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.31, Zola Books

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• African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

  Miriam Makeba

  Music, African Music

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• In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.

  Miriam Makeba

  Animal, Past, People

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• Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Faith, Believe, People

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• The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

  W. L. George

  Europe, America, Columbus

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• All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills were sculptures; the roads defined the form. Above all, there was the sensation of moving physically over the contours of fullnessess and concavities, through hollows and over peaks - feeling, touching, seeing, through mind and hand and eye. This sensation has never left me. I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and the hollow, the thrust and the contour.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Art, Memories, Father

  Barbara Hepworth (Dame) (1978). “A pictorial autobiography”

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• The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.

  Phyllis Chesler

  War, Simple, Oil

  Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.188, Macmillan

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• Good people in the West have often failed to distinguish between Islam and Islamism.

  Phyllis Chesler

  People, Islam, Good People

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• Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come to an end, and this is more observable in the West and not in the East, since in the East there are plenty of untouched and unexplored spaces that could still inspire an artist as sources of creativity.

  Guity Novin

  Creativity, Artist, Space

  Negin magazine, No 77, p. 57, 1971.

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• Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

  Cyril Smith

  Running, Farce, Ends

  On the House of Commons, in 'Big Cyril' (1977) ch. 8

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