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Quotes About Places

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.
~ Ivan Allen
I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.
~ Orhan Pamuk
I enjoy gigging in industrial towns. It seems to be where I go down the best. Somewhere where they have a history of manufacturing, they're my favourite places to play.
~ John Cooper Clarke
I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.
~ Caitlin Rose
I'm so excited to be in South Africa. I want to see a lot; everything! I want to see the people and the towns.
~ Liz Mitchell
The Toyota Center is a great place for us to fight, with us being from Houston. We love Los Angeles, too. The fans are always great. Anywhere they put us, we'll make it work. Brooklyn is definitely one of our favorite places to fight, though.
~ Jermall Charlo
Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.
~ Charles Simic
I do travel a lot, because I need oxygen, I need to go to places to meet people who aren't upset at me because I'm asking for peace.
~ Sandra Cisneros
As I've started school I have a student-feeling wardrobe and then because I travel a lot, things feel very different for different places and days.
~ Morgan Saylor
To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I'd be it's really, you know, still fascinating for me.
~ Beyonce Knowles
Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
~ David Gemmell
And what I learned is this: there are places in the world war one feels new, young, and alive again.
~ Suzanne Joinson
I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.
~ Marianne Fredriksson
Well I know the secret places, And the nests in hedge and tree; At what doors are friendly faces, In what hearts are thoughts of me.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I'm always afraid going into strange places, but I also choose carefully and listen to my instincts. These were men I could trust. I'm a pretty good judge of crazy versus sad. I prefer sad.
~ Laurel Nakadate
But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
I have begun to wonder what actually happens in our brains when we return to half-remembered places. What is memory's perspective? Does the man revise the boy's view or is the imprint relatively static, a vestige of what was once intimately known?
~ Siri Hustvedt
I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
~ Annie Leibovitz
Different places, different ages, completely different cultures, and yet they came up with similar weapons and tactics. Is there something about how we're wired, something universally human?
~ Max Brooks
I've never even been to Long Island
~ Meg Cabot
But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning
~ Meg Cabot
even if vampires were stupid. Especially American vampires. They hung out in places Alaric himself would never have gone, especially if he were immortal. Such as high schools. And Walmart.
~ Meg Cabot
I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.
~ Judi Dench