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Quotes About Places

It is true that these changes have occurred to us without our being aware of them; but the distance between the memory which suddenly returns and our present personality as similarly between two memories of different years and places, is so great that it would suffice, apart from their specific uniqueness, to make comparison between them impossible.
~ Marcel Proust
linked all of a sudden to places from which I had thought it quite distinct, lost its mystery and took up its place in the region, leading me to reflect in terror that Mme Bovary and La Sanseverina9 would perhaps have struck me as creatures like any other had I come across them anywhere except in the enclosed atmosphere of a novel.
~ Marcel Proust
These shells are just like the people of the world, Okachan,' Manjiro said, speaking not just to his mother, but to everyone. 'They come from many places. They come in many different colors and sizes. But they are all beautiful.
~ Unknown
I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.
~ Garth Brooks
Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve the strange and unfamiliar, not everything strange or unfamiliar is transcendental.
~ Mark Rothko
The Iraqi troops and the Iraqi fighters are in control of all the places, as we have witnessed, no big change in that. We are fighting against them.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Elites everywhere tend to worry about places where the lower orders congregate, and
~ Mary Beard
Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
But the truth is, it only half-works, you know? Places are places and memories are memories and life is fucking life.
~ Matt Haig
wanted to be somewhere he had never been. I wanted somewhere where I didn't have to feel his ghost. But the truth is, it only half-works, you know? Places are places and memories are memories and life is fucking life.
~ Matt Haig
Librarians have knowledge. They guide you to the right books. The right worlds. They find the best places. Like soul enhanced search engines.
~ Matt Haig
Places are places and memories are memories.
~ Matt Haig
Life, especially human life, was an act of defiance. It was never meant to be, and yet it existed in an incredible number of places across a near-infinite amount of solar systems.
~ Matt Haig
know? Places are places and memories are memories and life is fucking life.
~ Matt Haig
wanted somewhere where I didn't have to feel his ghost. But the truth is, it only half-works, you know? Places are places and memories are memories and life is fucking life.
~ Matt Haig
Places are places and memories are memories and life is fucking life.
~ Matt Haig
Many tales are told of what he witnessed on his journey, of the Desert of Dried-Up Tears, of the Vale of the Lost Shape, and other places besides.
~ Matt Wagner
The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of all physicists of all places, all times, all peoples, and all cultures.
~ Max Planck
I wasn't sure I was ready to go home. I believed that this city was magical. That it sang to me. And it seemed to me that once you happened upon magical places you should stay there, happily ever after.
~ Unknown
Luck is a strong horse; it can carry man to very distant places!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Stories , he thought. All they created was a yearning for faraway places.
~ Melina Marchetta
Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
~ Unknown