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Quotes About Place

All in all, this is an excellent place to partake of morning tea, but surprisingly few of the inhabitants of Taunton seem to wish to avail themselves of it. At
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
No beer?" Corey said. "What kind of place is this?" "The kind that knows better than to leave anything that'll make it a target for kids like you," I said.
~ Kelley Armstrong
there are no saints in politics, but imperfect people can make the world a better place.
~ Ken Follett
But like always when I try to place my thoughts in the past and hide there, the fear close at hand seeps in through the memory.
~ Ken Kesey
and as this need grows more intense so does a sensation of movement, speed to come, impending declaration—"The past is funny, Viv; it never seems to let things lie, finished. It never seems to stay in place as it should"—until she feels that she is beginning to run down an ever steepening hill and she must stop before the hill gets too steep and she gets going too fast to stop:
~ Ken Kesey
We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.
~ Keneth Grahame
I had figured out something that seemed important: every bird had its place. None was "free as a bird." A few kinds were found all over the continent, but they were the exceptions.
~ Kenn Kaufman
Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all.
~ Muhammad Ali
When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.
~ Eric Weiner
What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place.
~ Daniel Kemmis
Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.
~ Lynda Obst
This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.
~ Neil Gaiman
The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".
~ James Alan Gardner, Ascending
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
~ William Wilberforce
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.
~ Richard Meier
A falcon, towering in her pride of place,Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.
~ William Shakespeare
Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I: when I was at home, I was in a better place: but travelers must be content.
~ William Shakespeare
The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centerObserve degree, priority, and place,Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,Office, and custom, in all line of order.
~ William Shakespeare
Nor time nor placeDid then adhere.
~ William Shakespeare
Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time, in you?
~ William Shakespeare
Hand in hand, with fairy grace, Will we sing, and bless this place.
~ William Shakespeare