Place Quotes

“A city is a place where interesting always beats beautiful.”
― Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays

“At a certain point I need to go wandering. My feet need to hit earth, again and again, that bone-filling drumbeat. I need the sky's colored threads to tangle inside me, pull me somewhere new.”
― Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays

“True, but it never hurts to understand a place a little better. That’s why words are so important. They’re like a soul and a story all in one.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the City of Gold

“Where was i now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again I called out for Midori from the dead centre of this place that was no place.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Change as many times as needed. Change your mind, change your mindset, change the places you go, change the way you deal with certain things. Change whenever you feel that something or someone no longer resonates with the person you are striving to become.”
― Genereux Philip

“In some countries, the churches took over the place of the castles. In my opinion, these same churches represent the castles. For they have the same wealth like that of the kings.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“If no one is perfect in this world, then it would be foolish of you to confess your sins to anyone. Unless you feel they must be perfect in the first place!”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Stars are empty places in the sky until you make them a home for your dreams.”
― Laura Chouette

“Los Angeles is like a white world, filled with ever smaller white circles, leading to some perfect white core. Los Angeles is where the angels with their white capped teeth and their white tennis dresses, gradually edged closer to the pure center, ambrosia, the fountain of youth.”
― Kate Braverman, Lithium for Medea

“home isn't a place it's a feeling.”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“When the uniqueness of a place sings to us like a melody, then we will know, at last, what it means to be at home.”
― Paul Gruchow, The Necessity of Empty Places

“I mean the kind of roots that happen privately between you and a certain place. Like you come to a place, and instead of planting a flag and saying mine, the place plants something in you. The place claims you, it knows your name and the crooked corners of your heart, and you've pledged yourself to it before you've even realized what's happening.”
― Sierra Simone, A Lesson in Thorns

“Bethel reveals that God is present in every liminal place, lending his anchoring weight to our weightless lives. Our in-between places--between jobs, between cities, between houses--can easily feel like a bookmark, as if their only job was separating past from future. But these places are indeed part of the story, even when we have failed to give them a name... A nameless place can be the site of tentatively taking our first step toward trust; it's at Bethel that we can begin believing in a God, who journeys with us.”
― Jen Pollock Michel, Keeping Place: Reflections on the Meaning of Home

“Patriotism at its best, inspired by a history of shared sacrifice in a shared country, was not racist or exclusionary; it was democratic, civic-minded, and inclusive, devoid of the hatred that so often arises out of communities based on race or ethnicity.”
― William Leach

“the forms of the landscape – like the identities and capacities of its human inhabitants – are not imposed upon a material substrate but rather emerge as condensations or crystallizations of activity within a relational field. As people, in the course of their everyday lives, make their way by foot around a familiar terrain, so its paths, textures and contours, variable through the seasons, are incorporated into their own embodied capacities of movement, awareness and response – or into what Gaston Bachelard calls their ‘muscular consciousness’. But conversely, these pedestrian movements thread a tangled network of personalized trails through the landscape itself. Through walking, in short, landscapes are woven into life, and lives are woven into the landscape, in a process that is continuous and never-ending.”
― Tim Ingold

“If it is traumatising to follow the same lecture every week, then what makes it desirable to sit in the same place daily?”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“the ragged western fringe of Los Angeles called Venice. . . . Here the city stops its white cement sprawl, its hunger to engulf the whole earth under tons of trucked-in concrete. Here in the lap of the blind blue-eyed Pacific, Los Angeles is stopped dead by the sheer liquid cliffs of the sea. Here the trail ends. After Death Valley and Donner Pass, there is only this precarious oasis.”
― Kate Braverman

“To the locals, he realized, the Orkneys were the center of the world.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Remaking History and Other Stories

“I had a stack of books of fabulous contemporary writers who'd left their roots and who seemed invigorated thereby. Isabel Allende from Chile to California, Clarice Lispector from Russian to Brazil, Haruki Murakami from Japan to Italy, Kazuo Ishiguro from Japan to England. I knew I wasn't going back to New England, that I'd found my real homeland. North California was where my characters wanted to be.”
― Susan Trott

“By not letting places be themselves we show our contempt for them. We bury them in sentiment, then suffocate them to death in one way or another. I can ruin both the desert and the Museum of Modern Art in New York by carrying to them an insufferable load of distinctions that disallows actually seeing the flora and fauna or the paintings. Children are usually better at finding mushrooms and arrowheads because they are either ignorant of or unwilling to carry the load.”
― Jim Harrison, Dalva

“Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other place.”
― Susan Burton , Empty

“There is no place like a place of payer.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is no place like a place of prayer.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Casinos were nothing new for Edmonton. Outside of Nevada, the city had more gambling space per capita than any other city in North America, a fact that some people in the chamber of commerce liked to celebrate, while others didn’t.”
― Wayne Arthurson, Fall from Grace

“You can pray in any place.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A wise woman knows her place and uses her faith to go places.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“I will tell you. This place stinks. This isn't iDEATH at all. This is just a figment of your imagination. All of you guys here are just a bunch of clucks, doing clucky things at your clucky iDEATH.”
― Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar

“Sixty years ago my family lived in an orange grove. Forty years ago we were one house in a field of houses, with few orange trees between. Twenty years ago we were one of many houses in a row in a rich neighborhood. Ten years ago, mainlanders bought up all the houses, all but my family’s, because my father didn’t sell. So now we have a hotel to the left of us, and a surf shop to the right, and two bars on the street, and three mansions, and no orange trees. My father sits on the porch and rocks, as he’s done all my life. Even if you live sixty years on one block, the block moves around you.

Gladstone, Max. The Craft Sequence . Tom Doherty Associates. Kindle Edition.”
― Max Gladstone, Full Fathom Five

“Stability is good advice, but sometimes, like Jacob, we end up with a life that, in the rearview mirror, looks much more erratic than we might [have] originally intended. The greatest consolation for the geographically displaced is.. Jesus... He left home and its happiness with abandon, even delight.”
― Jen Pollock Michel, Keeping Place: Reflections on the Meaning of Home

“He felt like the place was reeling him in now––slow and sure, like a kite, pulled by a hand that was as strong as it was unseen. Killing the lie that he was ever flying free in the first place.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments