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Quotes About Place

The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.
~ Vera Nazarian
The church is not a voluntary association to be governed as its members see fit, but a dwelling place of God. It ought to be structured according to the orders of its commander, the Lord Jesus Christ.
~ Unknown
I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.
~ Victoria Beckham
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.
~ William Wordsworth
There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.
~ Rumi
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.
~ Marcus du Sautoy
What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
~ Henry Ward Beecher
It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.
~ Story Musgrave
Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.
~ Cyril Connolly
If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.
~ Dalai Lama
North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.
~ Lizz Winstead
Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday
~ Dylan Thomas
Gujarat, with its all inclusive, sustainable and rapid growth, is emerging as a globally preferred place to live in and to do business.
~ Narendra Modi
Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I have a problem with the term social entrepreneurship because people say only business helps to make the world a better place.
~ Unknown
I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.
~ Five for Fighting
We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.
~ Jim DeMint
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
~ Frank Gehry
Quizá su batalla para establecerse en Old House había terminado, o quizá se equivocaba al pensar que había encontrado su lugar o que podría encontrarlo alguna vez.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
The building appears to be locked still into the early nineteenth century (…) There is sits, ticked snug into the fields. It could have simply grown of its own accord, you feel - made from the very bones of this land. It is an emancipation of a time and a place. The truth is that World's End is suspended in this landscape like a space capsule (…)
~ Penelope Lively
I came to realize that my grandmother's stories were part of time and not part of time, part of place and not part of place, part of the stuff that is stored in the mind's honeycomb.
~ Unknown
to see the real thing in the right place - it was special. It left a very important mark in my memory.
~ Peter Hessler
The wildwood brings on mild nostalgia, not for home or place, but for lost innocence—the paradise lost that, as Proust said, is the only paradise.
~ Peter Matthiessen
My uncle's town, Milburn, is one of those places that seems to create its own limbo and then to nest down in it.
~ Peter Straub