Quotes About Place

Ideas are not dangerous unless they find seeding place in some earth more profound than the mind.

When two events have something in common, in their natures or in time or place, we leap happily to the conclusion that they are similar and from this tendency we create magics and store them for retelling.

Monterey is a place, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

An' Grandpa didn' die tonight. He died the minute you took 'im off the place. You sure a that? Pa cried Why, no. Oh he was breathin', Casy went on, but he was dead. He was that place, an' he knowed it.

His father knew every place in the boy where a word would fester.

It was a grim farm and a grim house, unloved and unloving. It was no home, no place to long for ot to come back to.

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language.

When invitation come, then I inquire just to see new place or seeing just the one sort of family, then not much interest.

The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.

Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.

By having good memories on every place you just visit, you are building paradise in your own heart and your life.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Les pays que nous désirons tiennent à chaque moment beaucoup plus de place dans notre vie véritable, que le pays où nous nous trouvons effectivement.

recalling our life in the old days at Combray with my great-aunt, at Balbec, Paris, Doncières, Venice, and the rest;

I thought of you, of our walks you made so delightful, while tremendous fights were going on for the capture of a hillock you loved and where so often we had been together. Probably you, like myself, are unable to imagine that obscure Roussainville and tiresome Méséglise, whence our letters were brought and where one went to fetch the doctor when you were ill, are now celebrated places

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services. But on this morning of travel, the interruption of the routine of my existence, the unfamiliar place and time, had made their presence indispensable. My habits...for once were missing, and all my faculties came hurrying to take their place.

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.

The director shook his head. "The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are." Peters

The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are." Peters