Western Development Region

Famous quotes containing the words western, development and/or region:

“One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fibre of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardy.”
—Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)

“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)

“In the misty mid region of Weir—”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)