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Quotes About Places

The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.
~ Dean Koontz
Now and then, I remember you in times Unbelievable. And in places not made for memory But for the transient, the passing that does not remain.
~ Yehuda Amichai
A Christian is one who has been "crucified with Christ," who has died with Him, been buried with Him, risen with Him, ascended with Him, and is seated "in heavenly places" with Him (Rom 6:3-8; Gal 2:20; Eph 2:5-6; Col 3:1-3).
~ Horatius Bonar
It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fifteen seconds I could only hang my jaw in amazement.
~ Hugh Laurie
This book is a story of encounters between Reef peoples and places, ideas, and environments, over more than two centuries, beginning with James Cook's bewildered voyage through a coral maze and ending with the searing mission of reef scientist John "Charlie" Veron to goad us to act over the impending death of the Reef.
~ Unknown
Faces, places … such and such a face appeared at such and such a place, such and such a face disappeared at such and such a place, such and such a face was always in the third seat from the left when she got on, such and such a face was always hanging from the strap by the door when she got off … same faces, same places. But not today! Today those faces are two hours behind Courtney Hall, it's different faces today, let's have a look at them, what do we see?
~ Unknown
traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.
~ Unknown
And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety—Oh
~ Corrie Ten Boom
4. Well may New-England lay claim to the name it wears, and to a room in the tenderest affections of its mother, the happy Island! for as there are few of our towns but what have their name-sakes in England, so the reason why most of our towns are called what they are, is because the chief of the first inhabitants would thus bear up the names of the particular places there from whence they came.
~ Cotton Mather
nature hates a vacuum and strange things are drawn into empty places; sometimes oddities survive where nothing else can.
~ Craig Johnson
Only in imagination or dreams do the people we love occupy their proper places
~ Unknown
In the course of my wanderings I have started life anew in many places, and in every place the same thing happens: at first there is little to do, one knows nobody and life passes by like a pageant, then gradually the world breaks in and one becomes a part of the pageant instead of a mere spectator.
~ D.E. Stevenson
It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I'm having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.
~ Jack Dorsey
I see how these beautiful forests are now open to destruction because of technology. Companies are able to get into more and more remote places that weren't economically viable before.
~ Julia Butterfly Hill
I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that.
~ Thia Megia
There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.
~ Bjorn Ulvaeus
I've been to Vietnam and China, so it's great to see new places and experience the culture and people.
~ Danilo Gallinari
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.
~ Unknown
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the authors' imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to events or locales, is entirely coincidental.
~ Unknown
If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment, Murphy interrupted, I will break your arm in eleven places.
~ Jim Butcher
These evil freaks, Karrin said. They always pick the most charming places to hang out. Dark energy here, I said. Keeps people from wandering in and randomly interfering. And it feels homey. I know you haven't burned down any buildings in a while, she said, but if you start feeling the need...
~ Jim Butcher
The Legions have a long tradition, boys. You march hard and fast and show up in places where no one expects you—and then you go to work." He grinned. "And you do it all carrying a hundred pounds of gear made by whoever did it for the least coin—but every one of those slives gets paid better than you! It's tradition!
~ Jim Butcher
They always have good coffee here," Ebenezar said a few moments later. "And they don't call it funny names," I said. "It's just coffee. Not frappalattegrandechino.
~ Jim Butcher
These evil freaks," Karrin said. "They always pick the most charming places to hang out.
~ Jim Butcher