Quotes About Place

The Knicks' practice facility is a great place.

Home is the place we should return to with eager spirits, the journey's end we reach with sighs of contentment.

This is getting surreal," Marlowe murmured. "Even for this place." "Cassie is here-mentally," Mircea told him. "I gathered that." "She seems to find it difficult to understand why I do not wish to have her in my head, unannounced, any time she pleases--" Marlowe gave a bark of a laugh. "Oh this should be fun.

Nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?

You had no right." "Ah, the morally outraged cry of the weak: You're not 'allowed' to do that. One is allowed to do anything one can get away with. Only when you understand that will you know your place in this world. And your power. Might is right.

I stare at him through the dim light as instant lust eclipses anger, will, time, place.

On Sundays, the pretending felt almost as natural as nature. The chapel was our favorite place. Long before we could understand what the priest was saying, the music instructed us in how to feel.

That, if I'm being honest, Manhattan is just a place like any other. Its power to mesmerize, to seduce, to excite, is in direct proportion to my willingness to be mesmerized, seduced, excited. That it really is all about perspective.

But there is room now in my heart for more memories, carved by a letting go that I could find only by coming home to a place I'd never been.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted, One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.—EMILY DICKINSON

My life is a tree, Yoke-fellow of the earth; Pledged, By roots too deep for remembrance, To stand hard against the storm, To fill by Place. (But high in the branches of my green tree there is a wild bird singing: Wind-free are the wings of my bird: she hath built no mortal nest.)

In fact, studies have demonstrated that the 'success rate' of missionary encounters that take place in the home of a friend or family member is five hundred times higher than encounters in an institutional setting or a public place.

I guess it's not the place I want to escape. It's my place in this place.

It is not the sort of place where one would expect to find a witch. But a witch did live there, though she is not buried there.

To an open house in the eveningHome shall men come,To an older place than EdenAnd a taller town than Rome.

Time in itself does not exist, there is only the totality of the results issuing from all the cosmic phenomena present in a given place.

It takes sometime and a lot of looking around but you eventually find that your home is alot more just the house you live in.

A strange sentimental excitement had overcome him; all the lyrical peaks of his spirit had ignited and were flaming; the hour, the light, the place, all the surrounding things suggested love to him; from the farthest end of the sea right to the humble maidenhair fern of the fountains, a single magical circle was being drawn; and he felt that its center was that woman.

Um lugar não é um lugar de verdade sem uma livraria.

In Asia respect for the game is very important. Players at the high school level bow to the umpire. They also bow to the field. It is a sacred time and place.

The people who went to watch men butting heads at New Orleans' Buffalo Bill House would likely have felt out of place at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, which opened in the 1890s on the site where the Empire State Building now stands. The bar at the old Waldorf Astoria was the scene of the sort of decadence we often associate with the decade that became known as the Gay Nineties.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made or parts, each of which in a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.

Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness