Quotes About Place

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

I've been trying to remember this place," she said, almost plaintively. "I love it here, but the entire time I've felt like it was the one remembering me.

If the world is a just place, that mark

You prefer this place, you really do, don't you?

STAY ON THE RIGHT SIDE. SCHOOL IS STILL THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE. AS YOU KNOW TOO WELL, KAYLA, DEALS CAN BE DANGEROUS. TELL YOUR HEADMISTRESS SHE WILL SOMEDAY REGRET MAKING ARRANGEMENTS WITH THOSE SHE DOES NOT TRUST COMPLETELY.

If you want to help the world and yourself, keep your frequency high and do your work from a place of power and joy.

It would be great to have a little getaway place somewhere hot, maybe down in Mexico, since I love it there. But now that I've banned myself from the sun, I don't know how that will work.

I felt in Ann Arbor the same way I did in the city—like everything was happening and I was missing it all when I wasn't there. I suppose there are several spots on earth where each one of us feels completely at home. For me, they are Ann Arbor

Belle hesitated. "What is this place?" she asked. "A bit of magic, like all goodbooks," the man replied. "An escape. A place where you can leave cares and worries behind." He smiled. "At least for a chapter or two." He offered her his arm.

As she worked, Anna glanced occasionally at the Flossie Flirt doll wedged at the end of a shelf. She had wanted one so violently two years ago that some of her desperation seemed to have broken off and stayed inside her. It was strange and painful to discover that old longing now, in this place.

I see now that the place I've been yearning for is my own imagination.

You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.

but you must positively claim health, harmony, and True Place, if you really want those things.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.

You'll never truly be happy until you've found a place that you can call your own. A place that will be in your heart.

The nostalgia I had come to treasure was a hypertrophied sense of the past as a place, a place with street signs and a figure atop a staircase that I recognized.

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

one person can come along and change your life, and that being a misfit, as I was, doesn't mean you won't find friends and your place in the world.

It had to be their home. Because Jackson literally had no place else to go, either in his person or in his heart. Scary Monsters, Running Fish JACKSON ARRIVED none too soon.

If one takes the incarnation—that is, the claim that the "Word became flesh and lived among us" (John 1:14)—seriously, then one should take seriously the time when, place where, and people among whom this event occurred.

I want a house that's mobile but stationary, situated in a safe place without borders, where the people are peace-loving.

As a newcomer I felt that this was indeed a blessed place, capable of unabashedly advertising its flaws, fearing no ridicule and no criticism. That, in essence, is the opposite of provincialism. The great cities of the world are not provincial: They invite complexity, not propaganda.

What a story this place will tell," she said.

How do you calculate loss, as in the loss of place, encompassing those whose "investment" in their home was not simply economic but who had nowhere else to go? How do you calculate the loss of a place, not only its real geography but the geography of its imagination?