Quotes About Place

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.

People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.

Well, I suppose there's no place like home," she said. "No," said Granny Weatherwax, still looking thoughtful. "No. There's a billion places like home. But only one of 'em's where you live.

You know zat another term for an iconographer would be 'photographer'? From the old word 'photus' in Latation, vhich means—" "'To prance around like an idiot ordering everyone about as if you owned the place,'" said William. "Ah, you know it!

Tomorrow, your job is to change the world into a better place. Today, my job is to see that everyone gets there.

Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice.

Er, why do you need to work in a dark room, though? he said. The imps don't need it, do they? Ah, zis is for my experiment, said Otto proudly. You know zat another term for an iconographer would be 'photographer'? From the old word photos in Latation, vhich means - 'To prance around like a pillock ordering everyone about as if you owned the place', said William. Ah, you know it!

Well, I suppose there's no place like home,' she said. 'No,' said Granny Weatherwax, still looking thoughtful. 'No, there's a billion places like home. But only one of 'em's where you live.

And perhaps at the other end of the world there is a place where the screaming can't be heard, and I may find it in my heart to grant God absolution!

No. There's a billion places like home. But only one of 'em's where you live.

Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believes in ice – i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the place for it.

We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you can't stay there very long. Sooner or later you have to look at your own reflection and decide what to do with yourself. We are urban people. We make periodic pilgrimages to the country. . . . If we align ourselves with the spirit of place we will find humility fused with joy. The land holds stories.

The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.

I trace my genealogy back to the land. Human and wild, I can see myself whole, not isolated but integrated in time and place. Our genetic makeup is not so different from the collared lizard, the canyon wren now calling, or the great horned owl who watches from the cottonwood near the creek. Mountain lion is as mysterious a creature as any soul I know. Is not the tissue of family always a movement between harmony and distance?

I am of this place. Family is a place, and my family s located here, those who are living and those who have passed. I am am settled in the scent of sage, Mount Moran's reflection at Oxbow Bend is more than a mirror of memories; it is the joy found in river otters, a reminder that there are places in the world we can return for peace unchanged.

Creating a monument is a matter of taste and values and the means to get it made. Once you monumentalize a person, place, or thing, you run the risk of worship. And what we worship, for better or for worse, freezes the story.

A crisis woke us up. A shared love of place opened a dialogue with neighbors. We asked for help. We found partners. We used our collective intelligence to formulate a plan. And then we had to search within ourselves to find what each of us had to give.

My name is Carmilla," said the woman. "I've come from Mina, in Budapest. I think it's time you were rescued from this place. Don't you think?

So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there.

I'm of course jumping right in with the attitude that I can win the Eurovision Song Contest - or at least finish in second place!

Kansas City is just a great place. I love the fans.

I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and they can have creative freedom.

I wasn't in the right place at Kentucky, and I don't think I ever would have been comfortable in college.

The word of God - what does it say about what his place is going to be in the Kingdom? Think about it.