Place Quotes
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Rumi
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“European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.”
Alfred W. Crosby
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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
Italo Calvino
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Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.
Cory Arcangel
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I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans.
Billy Joel
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“I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.”
Amitav Ghosh
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The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.
Wes Moore
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Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away. I won't forget the place I came from.
Kelly Clarkson
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Music is human vibration. It makes humans vibrate and takes them some place else.
Abderrahmane Sissako
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In life sometimes we have to let go of the good things so better things can fall into place.
Joshua Ledet
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It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses - the precise place where you would expect to see the least.
Alan Charles Korsun
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I would happily, sometimes more than happily, have vacated my role as an animal theologian, if there were others prepared to take my place.
Andrew Linzey
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I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a cliché, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
Red Cloud
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You want to find a place where, because of your skills, you can make an impact.
John McKinley
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Sharing words with someone you have never met is like observing a shadow, without seeing the whole person; the place where my shadow touches theirs, is the place where our words meet, and it is in that place where wonderful exchanges can take place.
Allison Mackie
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They were the first to offer, and that's the only place I really wanted to play. For me, I love the city of Boise and I'm really comfortable with the whole staff down there. And what I like most about that program is they win and they win the right way.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
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I miss New York terribly. There is no place like the city. I miss people-watching. I miss the nightlife. I miss the food. There are so many options in New York City.
Regina Hall
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When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in places that are hard to find on a map, but that they also use the names of seasons as verbs. When they asked me, 'Where did you summer and winter growing up?' I would usually say, 'As a child? The same place I springed and autumned.'
Artie Lange
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My caravan was like a café and it [had] nice light because the windows were on both sides. It was a good place to photograph.
Chris Killip
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I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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There was a place for males and for females, but what would happen is that, if a single mother had two little girls and a 6-year-old boy and found herself homeless, the little boy could wind up by himself, in a cot next to a drug addict while the females in his family were somewhere else. I just couldn't imagine this. I mean, in a time of crisis, a family should be held together at all costs and here it was that it was the system that was forcing it apart.
J. M. Roberts
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I was convinced high school was the place for me.
Eddie Sutton
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I'm very keen on making the world a better place, whether that's changing people's attitudes or giving people the confidence to be who they are.
Anzia Yezierska