Quotes About Place

But the transport of a novel, the false awareness of being within another time, place and life that was the pleasure of reading, for her, was not possible. She was in another time, place, consciousness; it pressed in upon her and filled her as someone's breath fills a balloon's shape. She was already not what she was. No fiction could compete with what she was finding she did not know, could not have imagined or discovered through imagination.

You wanted to play, baby." Soft words that had her freezing in place. "So we'll play.

think of kindness as a ripple that spreads outward. If you wish to make the world a better place, send out as many ripples as you can.

You'll have to excuse me," Susan went on, wiping her hands self-consciously on her jeans. "The place is a mess, but I guess that's what happens when you have children.

Keep it. When you have enough of my clothes at your place, I'll have to start staying overnight so I can get dressed." "Dream on, Savoie." "Every night, detective.

Prayer Child of Bethlehem, we are grateful to know that you came to ordinary people in an ordinary place, because we are ordinary. May your glory shine bright in this ordinary place we call home.

Earth, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust in mother earth we place our trust and as we cycle through our years we water it with blood and tears...

But most important, it was a place into which they could export their own marginalized people.

The voice says: There is a need for a prophet in the land. Allie thinks, but who? The voice says: Just try it on for size, honey. Remember, if you're going to stay here, you're going to need to own the place so they can't take it from you. The only way you're safe, honeybun, is if you own it.

Here was the Russia she'd loved since childhood, the dark, violent, passionate place where the life of the mind and spirit were as real as the life of the body.

Geography is fate.

When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

I felt privileged to live and work and play in a place that few had ever seen. And I was grateful I had been imprisoned here, in a leprosarium, where I could begin to rebuild my life in a different way.

In my opinion—which is as good as yours and anybody else's—truth depends on the point of view, on the subjective reality of the observer, and on certain conditions, such as time, place, and the will to be done.

The man who is sent to preach the gospel of God is first called, and taken in Spirit into the divine assembly where the gods hold judgment. "God has taken His place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods He holds judgment

Now is the time And here is the place, 'Cause we lose these hours and casting blame When we should be saying grace. We can find a better way. We can stand on common ground. We can work this out between us before the sun goes down. We come together.

Stephen did not intend to go to the concert, not because he disapproved or wanted to distance himself from the notion of such music in a place like west Clare, but because there would be people there.

few miles away, similar preparations were taking place among the French and Spanish.

In lower Manhattan there is an improbable point where Waverly Place intersects Waverly Place. It was there that I met Veronica, on a snowy, windy night.

Hild's dreams of birds stolen from their nests by stoats became so evil Onnen threatened to stuff her ears with tallow and threatened to find another sleeping place.

Violence feels good. It's so simple and clear. There's no mistaking the winner. I like it, but I avoid going there, going to the blue place, because I think I could get lost, not find my way back, I wouldn't want to find my back because it's seductive.

She was already going to that place, the heart-stopping moment when the world pauses, the resumes as a crystal dream.

It's like dancing, like being a hummingbird among elephants, like having all your joints lubricated and everything suddenly turned to perfect pitch. Even the light changes. I call it the blue place.

The late afternoon sky over the lake this time was grey, but the water laughed and sparkled, reflecting the blue sky and other time and place.