Quotes About Place

I'm in a place foreign to me, but there's something about Paris that feels very familiar. I wonder for the first time if a sense of place can be passed down through the blood.

New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.

And speaking of fight action, there is one place where Old Man Suspense can be made to work like an Elkton marrying parson.

Combat comes before victory. If God has chosen special trials for you to endure, be assured He has kept a very special place in His heart just for you. A badly bruised soul is one who is chosen.

Pas...de...lieu...Rhône...que...nous

they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.

This was not the frustration one feels at waking from a sweet dream. It was the desolation of having found the place that fits, the one true place, and experiencing the first heady sigh of rightness before being torn away and cast back into random, lonely scatter.

It was like stepping into the pages of a book - a book alive with colour and fragrance, filth and chaos - and the blue-haired girl moved through it all like a fairy through a story, the light treating her differently than it did others, the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.

This was not the frustration one feels at waking from a sweet dream. It was the desolation of having found the place that fits , the one true place, and experiencing the first heady sigh of rightness before being torn away and cast back into random, lonely scatter. The place was each other, and the irony was sharp, since they couldn't be in the same place, and had come no closer to each other in physical reality.

I felt an overwhelming gratitude in my life right now and wanted a chance to acknowledge it. I felt that any thanks given to any god all went to the same place, anyway, no matter what religion you were centered in.

You will spend years in hopeless traveling, searching, and all for nothing! Find a place to live, learn peace instead. Forget the stars.

The world is a tough place, my friend. I'm not ready to change my mind about that. And yet we're called upon to be grateful that we're in it. That seems to be our challenge.

Maybe sometimes you just have a couple of rotten choices. Like you can fail to comprehend the world you've got, or you can see it as this ugly, evil, dangerous place and not be able to do a damn thing about it.

But Fairyland is an old place, and old things have strange hungers.

Within the bowels of these elements, where we are tortured and remain for ever, The Labyrinth hath no limits, nor is circumscribed in one self place; for where we are is the Labyrinth, and where the Labyrinth is, there must we ever be. Hoo.

The history of every place is the history of the people inside it and the people outside it. The history of every person is the history of the love they've known and the hate they've grown.

Ohio is historically a healthy place for science fiction writers

As he passed me my mittens, he took my hand between his own. "What an odd course fate charts for us, does it not? Bereavement is the unwelcome current that forced you to an unintended harbor. But here, perhaps, the vessel lies that will carry you onward to the place where you were always meant to go.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

[Of Oakland, California:] There is no there there.

Beware: this is a place of tears. Questo è luogo di lagrime! Badate!

It is the bad spirit that has come over this place. My grandmother says that it will only go away when you see a dog and a goat riding a bicycle together.

We can only attain the best possible conditions if we work to put in place the best possible conditions necessary for their attainment.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.