Quotes About Place

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.

The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfect time.

There are too many years around this table, too much time confined in one place.

I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Design is coming to grips with one's real lifestyle, one's real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one's wellbeing.

When you are faced with a test of faith, stay within the safety and security of the household of God. There is always a place for you here. No trial is so large we can't overcome it together.

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

I think the world will be a better place when science has swept all religions into the dustbin of history. What is religion but a shared belief in things that cannot be known.

I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple--or a green field--a place to enter, and in which to feel.

Try to find the right place for yourself. If you can't find it, at least dream of it.

We grew into that perilous place: we grew fond.

If you're John Muir you want trees to live among. If you're Emily, a garden will do. Try to find the right place for yourself.

The suns I see and the suns I cannot see are in their place, The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place.

I tell Mark I'm glad to see some cup holders were left in place. I recognize the brief, polite silence that follows. It's Mark Roman rendered mute by the fullness of my ignorance. They're rifle holders.

Far more than we like to admit, the world is to a remarkable extent a self-organising, self-changing place.

The boundary between being an exile and being mad seemed to be a fine one... losing one's rightful place in the world could mean losing one's mind.

And the March is a liminal place,' she said almost to herself. 'A border, between one thing and the other. Like a river or the edge of the sea. A place where magic happens, where people disappear and wizards and prophets and poets feel at home.

Hidden within the heart of the great rose of music, he could forget time and place, forget the sting of his cut lip and the white man who'd given it to him, who had the right by law to give it to him; forget the whole of this past half year. For as long as he could remember, music had been his refuge, when grief and pity and rage and incomprehension of the whole of the bleeding world overwhelmed him: It had been a retreat, like the gentle hypnotism of the Rosary.

What you hold in your hands right now, beneath these words, is consecrated air and time and sunlight and, first of all, a place.

It only we could recover faith in a seed - and in all the other complicated marvels that can't fit in a sound bite. Then we humans might truly know the glory of knowing our place.

Sylvain] told us that in India it's sometimes considered a purification ritual to go home and spend a year eating everything from one place--ideally, even to grow it yourself. I liked this name for what we had done: a purification ritual, to cultivate health and gratitude. It sounds so much better than wackadoo.