Quotes About Place

The house, despite its eerie absence of absent things, was not a comfortable place, and there was nothing compelling her to be here.

iGen idea: the world is an inherently dangerous place because every social interaction carries the risk of being hurt. You never know what someone is going to say, and there's no way to protect yourself from it.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

It is funny how certain places get connected with certain people, and you never go back without thinking of them.

That night they left the tooth beneath his pillow and El Ratoncito Pérez came to retrieve it, leaving Luca a poem and a new toothbrush in its place.

Heaven is more than a destination. It's a destiny. More than a place, it's a Person. And what kind of Person would prepare something like this for you? A God who is great. A God who can be trusted. A God who is worthy. A God who loves you way more than you deserve. God. Loves. You.

The stories he told became boring to me through repetition, but I understand now that he was just trying to fix that place with the compass of his memories.

Terroir's direct translation is 'a sense of place

Terroir's direct translation is 'a sense of place,' and what it means is the sum of the effects of a localized environment, inasmuch as they impact the qualities of a particular product. Yes, that can mean wine, but what if you applied these criteria to thinking about Area X?

But when you've lived in a place this long, no walk can occur solely in the present. Every street, every building, appears to you encrusted with memories, with perspectives that betray your age, your cynicism, your sentimentality, or your lack of feeling where you should feel something.

The material world constrain us, often with gret beneficence, to see each person and thing in its time and place, its historical context. But mental life doesn't so constrain us. It is porous, open to air and light, swings forward while swaying back, scatters its stripes in all directions, and delights to find itself beached beside something invented only that morning or instead standing beside an altar from three millennia ago.

We marched. Gates opened and closed. We continued to march between the barbed wire. At every step, white signs with black skulls looked down on us. The inscription: WARNING! DANGER OF DEATH. What irony. Was there here a single place where one was not in danger of death?

It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.

Earth's the right place for love.

Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope

Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies

But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.

I'm damn sure not going to rent a place—what am I, an immigrant?

Entonces, ¿la tristeza es un sitio? —preguntó Giovanni. —Un sitio en el que la gente a veces se pasa años —contesté.

White Acre was not, in fact, a very large place.

His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever is happy, place or person, it does not matter which.

People are different in different places,' he thought hazily. 'And if they're all right in one place, it's best to leave them there.

but then I studied at Yale." "Yale! There is a great pizza place there—" "Frank Pepe!" Anna said. "Where they have that crazy—" "White clam pizza!" they said together.

It has been funny and delightful, that little interlude of admiration, but of course it couldn't go on once Caroline appeared. Rose knew her place.