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Quotes About Places

L'estraneità di ciò che non sei più o non possiedi più t'aspetta al varco dei luoghi estranei e non posseduti.
~ Italo Calvino
People who say no to upgrades will end up in caravan parks and wild places.
~ J. M. Ledgard
If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
Is it not an aberration of the memory to love only what it has lost? Just why do we lose these things, only to languish with nostalgia for the same places and the same people that earlier bored us to extinction? Is not all this predictable, vulgar folly?
~ Dacia Maraini
Big Picture Learning. Since 1996, with the opening of its flagship public high school, the Met, in Providence, Rhode Island, Big Picture Learning has been creating places that cultivate engagement rather
~ Daniel H. Pink
I don't love America; I love people and places in America. How could I truly love an entity that views me as subhuman, that wrote in its constitution for me to be considered three-fifths of a person?
~ Vic Mensa
I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village.
~ Nicola Formichetti
When you imagine the Koch brothers, it's hard not to think of the 1983 film 'Trading Places,' which featured as its villains a pair of brothers, commodity brokers named Randolph and Mortimer Duke.
~ David Brock
We've always had a love for other places outside the US. I would be right with him. Now that Michael's been vindicated, we all have to be careful... you never know what someone's plotting and planning.
~ Jermaine Jackson
I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.
~ Camila Alves
Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
~ Frank Gehry
The books. So many books. She adored reading. It introduced her to characters, took her to places where she was never lonely.
~ Lorraine Heath
He believed that light would banish the shadows. That kindness was more powerful than cruelty, and that goodness existed, even in the most desperate places. He believed that evil had its limits.
~ Louise Penny
Blood spilled out from the hole in your heart Over the strings of your guitar The worn down places in the wood That once made you feel so good Drunken Angel
~ Lucinda Williams
They were different places in that same relationship, and like anything that's out of alignment, they were destined to crash sooner or later.
~ Jodi Picoult
My great desire in my fulfilling my ministry was to get into the darkest places of the country, even amongst those people that were farthest off of profession; yet not because I could not endure the light (for I feared not to show my gospel to any)
~ John Bunyan
Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul
~ Thomas Moore
Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, and the bad. The land isn't going anywhere. And neither am I.
~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
~ Renzo Piano
We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world.
~ Malcolm Turnbull
Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.
~ David W. Orr
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.
~ Ernest Hemingway
My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.
~ Suzan-Lori Parks
With this crazy lifestyle, you have to think of places where you can still have your freedom.
~ Khloe Kardashian