Quotes About Place

The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.

In a shadowy place something white flew up. It was a heron, and it went away over the dark treetops. William Wallace followed it with his eyes and Brucie clapped his hands, but Virgil gave a sigh, as if he knew that when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign. (The Wide Net)

The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.

And homicides in Chicago are responsible for fifty percent of the increase in the United States' murder rate in the last year. Do you think the problem is deep-dish pizza or that it's become a shitty place to live?

the mines will provide a wage for the family to live on, the more for their providing work for all. I am told that there is a place for the smallest of boys and girls and all of the womenfolk as well as the men in the family. Between

The enchantment of that bright, sad, pretty place enveloped her and she found that, against all her expectations, she was happy there.

if she was going to go flapping her ears around the place, she may as well have some decent ears to flap.

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It astonished him how many of the players in the case still lived in the town, or had connections with the place. It was as if they'd had no ambition, or lacked the confidence to uproot themselves and try life elsewhere.

St. Agnes and he loved the place.

I've always been a fan of Westerns, but my favorite kind of Westerns mostly were Sam Peckinpah's Westerns, and they mainly took place in the West that was changing.

Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does. I just love the immediate nature of the city, you can get whatever you want whenever you want it and do whatever you want whenever you want to.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

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

It is important to find a place where you feel trust, you feel belonging and stability.

Christ's Church is, above all, the spiritual temple where every Christian knows he has his place: he knows he has it, and he is aware of his duty to keep it with honor, dignity, and grace.

I actually love the challenge of being in a new place where I'm so obviously the foreigner.

The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody.

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.

With 'Red Sonja', it's a single character leading a book although there's a supporting cast, whereas 'Secret Six' is basically six characters who have equal time and equal place in the book, so it's got a team dynamic that 'Red Sonja' doesn't have.