Quotes About Place

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.

symbolism is bullshit. Because my sister's room is not preserved, but no one has moved on. We're all still stuck in place.

He was so thin, so translucent, that he had to pass through the same place twice to leave a shadow.

I think a lot of people dont realize I come from a pretty rural area in a place where people are real westernized, and they love country music, because thats the kind of lives they lead.

Dublin's a great place. It really is. It's a great place. And Ireland, especially, is a great place. I've realized that growing up more. I'm loving my country more as I'm getting older.

You know what I'm realizing? I always love a place if I like the movie I'm doing there. I've heard people say, 'I hate Pittsburgh,' and I'm like, 'I love Pittsburgh so much!' I loved what I was doing there, and I loved Austin for the same reason.

Yes, I'm a reasonably good self-taught historian of the 1930s and '40s. I've never wanted to write about another time or place. I wouldn't know what to say about contemporary society.

We've been polarizing for different reasons. For one thing, my voice is very polarizing. It sits in this place that either appeals to people or really puts people off. I can understand that.

I actually don't read the press. All the writers I admire were significantly reclusive, and I'm still trying to figure out how they got to a place where they didn't have to talk to press.

I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are very excited when I walk into a place and they recognize me from the series.

I would recommend all players go to Napoli, it is a gratifying and successful place.

The Bundesliga is a strong league and a good place to go. One can only recommend the Bundesliga.

A handsome period of my childhood was spent at our house in Tollygunge.

Everybody wants the world to be a better place, and some think that government actions can bring that about. But they don't take into consideration that government actions can often do more harm than good.

London is such a great place, and at White Hart Lane, I feel just like home.

It took me a while to get to a place of feeling like fashion was an expression - something I could have fun with and an art form.

Just been getting my faith life together, and I feel like that's honestly putting me at a place of peace to where I can play my game, have fun with it.

Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.

France is a very attractive place: the health care system, for example.

The Magic Castle is not a place that people know nationally, but as soon as you move to L.A., you hear people talk about it.

The strong argument for Heaven as a place centers in and clusters about Jesus. The man Jesus, bearing a man's form, the body He wore on earth, has a place assigned Him - a high place.

I Have been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind. An old Greek writer mentions a people who lived there, and were so comfortable that they could not bear it any longer, and drowned themselves. My story is not the same as his. I do not think Herodotus had got the right account of the place. I am going to tell you how it fared with a boy who went there.

for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it;