Quotes About Place

Grey Wind balked in the middle of the drawbridge, shook the rain off, and howled at the portcullis. Robb whistled impatiently. "Grey Wind. What is it? Grey Wind, with me." But the direwolf only bared his teeth. He does not like this place, Catelyn thought.

The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.

place or that place. The rest of the time, they ate in his solar,

The beginning of Eternity, The end of time and space, The beginning of every end, And the end of every place. What am I?

My mother had that talent for endowing any place she was with dignity and charm. She behaved elegantly and politely, and thus hoped to change the world.

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

Murray said, "Is this Heaven?" The Voice said, "This is no place as you understand place." Murray was embarrassed, but the next question had to be asked. "Pardon me if I sound like a jackass. Are you God?

It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life. —James Baldwin

She does not reply. She would rather hide her face, and he knows why. Because of the disgrace. Because of the shame. That is what their visitors have achieved; that is what they have done to this confidant, modern young woman. Like a stain the story is spreading across the district. Not her story to spread but theirs: they are its owners. How they put her in her place, how they showed her what a woman was for.

The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In another time, in another place it might be held to be a public matter. But in this place, in this time, it is not. It is my bussines, mine alone. 'This place being what?' 'This place being South Africa

There is not enough time in a single life to know all of Voëlfontein, know its every stone and bush. No time can be enough when one loves a place with such devouring love.

Quando le braccia della maichen lo avvolsero e lei gli accarezzò la nuca, iAm sussultò…e si rese conto che in tutti gli anni che aveva passato sulla Terra, era la prima volta che aveva un posto dove andare quando sentiva che il mondo era un posto di merda e il tempo non era niente di più una tortura da sopportare.

Passare del tempo con te è come guardare la vernice che si asciuga.» La voce di Lassiter riecheggiò fino alle stalattiti appese all'alta volta della Tomba. «Senza neanche che la casa migliori. Il che è una tragedia, visto com'è questo posto. Voi ragazzi avete sempre un debole per le tinte fosche? Mai sentito parlare dell'Ikea?» «Noi siamo vampiri», disse Tohr. «Mica fatine.»

Life was life no matter where one lived

The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.'

Who could have imagined that life would have taken such marvelous twists and turns or that I would often be so fortunate to be in the right place at the right time?

Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.

London was an exciting place to work at one point because, socially, it was very progressive - a catalyst. There were very interesting artists making all types of work, but it got to a point where the social aspect became claustrophobic.

There is no place in world where you can do higher education better than in the UK.

I had developed a specifically calculated plan to break the system of white supremacy. My theory was that since Mississippi was the place, this was the ultimate: Mississippi was the place you had to break it.

Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.