Quotes About Place

So if you want great sports, Michigan's the place to be.

Humanity Is A Plague. We're A Disgusting, Narcissistic, Selfish Parasite, And The World Would Be A Better Place Without Us.

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.

The hazard of living in a place where you had so much history--so much pain and so much rage and so much love--was that every item could turn on you in a flash.

Leandros's favorite place had turned out not to be vegetarian, but vegan, which was for people who preferred their suicide slow.

I have never got over my surprise," Thoreau once reflected, "that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time, too.

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.

Love is given to us as a time, but to keep it always, we must make it a place.

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.

What we call historical memory is a creature of time and place. Emotional and political needs of the present intersect with past events. For memory, like perception, can never be simply factual. All our memories are reconstructions.

The Last Battle was not hope. The Last Battle was death. But it was a place to be, a place to go.

Yes, Aviendha had heard stories of this place. Those stories had failed to convey the full truth. One could not describe this place. One had to experience it. (A Memory Of Light: Wheel of Time Book 14, Robert Jordan)

Cities, she thought, they're the problem. Cities were stinking, festering places, like sores that never healed. Some were better than others—Elayne did an admirable job with Caemlyn—but the best of them gathered too many people and taught them to grow comfortable staying in one place.

When you were secure with what you were, there was no cause to resent being shown your place.

he'd long ago accepted the fact that berlin more than suspected him. in a way it was his protection; he'd by no means won every roll of the dice. if the enemy killed him, someone else would take his place. the enemy would have to start all over again. he was a known commodity... accept an existing devil.

Dirt is just matter out of place.

Next Maginnis found him a spacious rent-controlled triplex on Patchin Place for $102.78 a month

Marilla Cuthbert was driving into the yard as Anne returned from the house, and the latter flew to get tea ready. They discussed the matter at the tea table. I'll be glad when the auction is over, said Marilla. It is too much responsibility having so much stock about the place and nobody but that unreliable Martin to look after them. He has never come back yet and he promised that he would certainly be back last

L.M. Montgomery

We want to travel back in time, but we can't, and so we want to go to a new place instead. Place is what we have instead of time. No. Not true. Money is what we have now, instead of place or time." He exhales. "Time is money. Place is money. Love, love is money. And power is money. You'll see.

Why in the hell would anybody think they wanted to take cattle to Montana? Dixon, the scout, said. He had an insolent look. We thought it would be a good place to sit back and watch 'em shit, Augustus said. Insolence was apt to bring out the comic in him.

It's plate tectonics, Mark said. You know, the continents float around on top of the melted rock inside the Earth. Frank listened absently. No point in correcting Mark. But the Mojave was certainly a better place.