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Quotes About Location

Religion is a mere question of geography.
~ Edward Gibbon
Every place is a good place, only time goes wrong.
~ Yiyun Li
Eagles, for example, identify thermal columns rising from the ground, spread their giant wings and allow the hot air to lift them upwards. Yet eagles cannot control the location of the columns, and their maximum carrying capacity is strictly proportional to their wingspan.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Geopolitical pivots are the states whose importance is derived not from their power and motivation but rather from their sensitive location and from the consequences of their potentially vulnerable condition for the behavior of geostrategic players.
~ Zbigniew Brzezi?ski
Six? Here?" he says. Six, here. Seven, eight, nine, anywhere.
~ Deb Caletti
Son, if you were any farther from fine you'd be in Nebraska.
~ Deborah Blake
On occasion, people who tried to write family members living at Site X by addressing the letters to "Oak Ridge" got those letters returned to sender with a note reading simply: "There is no such place as Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
~ Denise Kiernan
As a wee two hundred-year-old, I decided the south of England was much to my liking. A wee bit warmer and I prefer barbecuing my English sheep.
~ Derek Hart
The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.
~ Margaret Thatcher
The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location.
~ Richard E. Pattis
Only three things mattered about a hotel: position, position and position.
~ Jeffrey Archer
this whiff of tissue harbors our mental maps—and our memories. In fact, our recollections appear to be all bound up with where we experienced an event.
~ Jennifer Ackerman
New research shows that when we recall an event, the place cells in our hippocampus that store the location of that event fire again, helping us to locate a memory in both space and time. This explains why retracing your steps can help you remember what you were looking for.
~ Jennifer Ackerman
Knowing your latitude and longitude is not the same as knowing where you are.
~ Jennifer Egan
Why was my grandfather, a Texas billionaire with a whole host of private chefs on call, eating at a hole-in-the-wall diner in a small Connecticut town that no one's ever heard of?
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Karen, you fuck up and I get sent to White Fang, Alaska as resident agent . . .
~ Elmore Leonard
Opažam da ljudi u ovim krajevima cijene neke vrijednosti više od gradskih ljudi, baš kao što pauk zatvoreniku u tamnici više vrijedi nego stanarima u ku?i; no ta dublja sklonost ne ovisi potpuno o mjestu na kojem se nalazi promatra?.
~ Emily Bronte
It depends on the monster, if it's a real one or not and if it's where I am.
~ Emma Donoghue
Will Maria be picking us up? Where do you think Maria is right now? How old do you think Maria is?
~ Eoin Colfer
Not to Houston, anyway. It was hotter than hell in Houston, just like in New Orleans. If I move anywhere, it'll be to someplace with snow, she thought wistfully as sweat trickled down her back.
~ Amanda Stevens
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
~ Ambrose Bierce
He wanted to be in the center of the city, in either the oldest or the most modern part, as
~ Amy Bloom
How fucking hard is it to find one lousy teenager? Seriously? This town is the size of a condom machine—
~ Amy Lane
They were taken from a bridge—the Sunshine Skyway,
~ Amy Lane