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Quotes About Place

I am trying," he said with great care, "to ascertain what your place is in the events about to transpire, and to act accordingly. From whom did you get your information?" The world seemed to lurch again, but this time it was not my vision. A terrible sense of certainty pulled at my heart and mind as I realized what he was striving so heroically not to say--nevertheless, what he meant. He thought I was on the other side.
~ Sherwood Smith
It's like this, when you live in a place you've always lived in, where your family has always lived. You get to see things not only in space but in time too.
~ Shirley Ann Grau
It mattered to us both to have some point of reference in that strange place, some means of attesting to the effect it had on us. [p. 87]
~ Shirley Hazzard
Ghosts are real, this much I know. There are things that tie them to a place, very much like they do us. Some remain tethered to a patch of land, a time and date, the spilling of blood, a terrible crime. But there are others...others that hold on to an emotion, a drive, loss, revenge, or love. Those...they never go away.
~ Shirley Jackson
the evil is the house itself, I think. It has enchained and destroyed its people and their lives, it is a place of contained ill will.
~ Shirley Jackson
The house was vile. She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once. 2 NO HUMAN eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which
~ Shirley Jackson
One heart fulfills all hearts. All hearts lead to the same heart. Kingdom Hearts A place where the mighty hearts lives. And where darkness is endlessly deep.
~ Shiro Amano
Pinye said Canada was in Canada. To be exact, it was in America. That is, Canada and America were the same place, with a difference
~ Sholom Aleichem
Mrs Pargeter had that rare quality in any surroundings of being always conspicuous, but never out of place.
~ Simon Brett
Not only do we assert that the existentialist doctrine permits the elaboration of an ethics, but it even appears to us as the only philosophy in which an ethics has its place.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
There's no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who'll help you to gain your rightful place in the community than in your own church-home!
~ Sinclair Lewis
At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.
~ Henry Rollins
Alas, day, you brought light, You trailed splendour You showed us god: I salute you, most precious one, But I go to a new place, Another life.
~ Hilda Doolittle
Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.
~ Jodi Picoult
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.
~ Compton Gage
My bed is the magical place where I love to overthink like a PSYCHO.
~ Tanya Masse
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
~ John Milton
A mind not to be chang'd by place or time.The mind is its own place, and in itselfCan make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
~ John Milton
A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
~ John Milton
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven
~ John Milton, Dr. Faustus
I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask but from my country's will, by day, by night, to ply the task her cup of bliss to fill.
~ John Quincy Adams
As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.
~ John Smith
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
~ John Strachan