Western Quotes

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

This is a boyhood dream, but I've always wanted to play the sheriff. I've wanted to be in a Western, in the hat, playing the sheriff.

I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.

I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on.

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.

A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories... grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a place but the soul of its people.

The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.

According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings.

[The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very good at that.

Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.

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

Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.

The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth. . . .

Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.

As Gandhi famously responded when asked about "Western civilization," "I wish they had one," the same applies to "international community": "I wish there was one."

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited to school for Career Day.

It's a very broad and not very well-disguised effort of Russians to create questions about the legitimacy of these Western elections. And, I think, this is very K.G.B.

Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.

The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

The biblical writers assumed many things about reality that modern, Western people do not assume because we've been conditioned by our cultures to assume otherwise.

The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but also win against the competition.

I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

I feel that the whole Western World will benefit by the resurrection of the neutron bomb project.

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.

Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

Pictures were made to entertain; if you want to send a message, call Western Union.

The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

I think we can expect leaders of Muslim societies to cooperate with each other on many issues just as Western societies cooperate with each other.

Both sides are divided and Western countries collaborate with Muslim countries and vice versa.

Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.

The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.

I had never thought of making a western even as I was making it.

It is clear that the vehicle of the western was a very interesting vehicle for me to contraband some of my ideas.

Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?

The greatest threat facing American today - next to voter fraud, the Western Pinebark beetle, and the memory foam mattress - is the national news media.

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

In general, the Western body has become a global brand.

Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's vivid and high-velocity, too. I couldn't put it down.