Place Quotes

“I’m in search of something more than a new place, though. I’m in search of a feeling and a state of being: that magical time when you can’t possibly predict what’s going to happen next or whom you are going to meet or where they are going to take you. In this state, everything flows, every surprise is a delight, and new people guide you to special adventures.”
― Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously

“After listening to the great farmer-poet Wendell Berry deliver a lecture on how we each have a duty to love our 'homeplace' more than any other, I asked him if he had any advice for rootless people like me and my friends, who disappear into our screens and always seem to be shopping for the perfect community where we should put down our roots. 'Stop somewhere,' he replied. 'And begin the thousand-year-long process of knowing that place. That's good advice on lots of levels, because in order to win this fight of our lives, we all need a place to stand.”
― Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

“Yes — the springtime needed you. Often a star
was waiting for you to notice it.

(Ja, die Frühlinge brauchten dich wohl. Es muteten manche
Stirme dir zu, dass du sie spürtest.)”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Another place!
it's enough to grieve me--
that old dream of going, of becoming a better man
just by getting up and going
to a better place.”
― Wendell Berry, The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

“I belong on a farm. I'm never lonesome here like I used to be in town. You remember what sad spells I used to have, when I didn't know what was the matter with me? I've never had them out here. And I don't mind work a bit, if I don't have to put up with sadness.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“None of these things is happening here. They are all happening far away, elsewhere.

But they may as well be, Iris says. What does here mean anyway, I’d like to know. Everywhere’s a here, isn’t it?”
― Ali Smith, Winter

“Maybe it hadn't been a community, but it had been a place. Now there weren't any places left, just separate houses with separate televisions and separate televisions and less and less dropping by.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“... the historian who visits a place writes a different history than the historian who stays at home, satisfied to read about a place someone else once visited”
― Barry Lopez

“In that place, everybody was strangers. But somehow everyone had a face that was, somewhere etched in my mind.”
― Akshay Vasu, Between the Abyss and Paradise

“I said I wasn’t sure it mattered where people lived or how, since their individual nature would create its own circumstances: it was a risky kind of presumption, I said, to rewrite your own fate by changing its setting; when it happened to people against their will, the loss of the known world---whatever its features---was catastrophic.”
― Rachel Cusk, Kudos

“You must remember when a loved one commits suicide, that they did so to go to a better place from the world that was torturing them.”
― Steven Magee

“I walk because it confers — or restores — a feeling of placeness. The geographer Yi-Fu Tuan says a space becomes a place when through movement we invest it with meaning, when we see it as something to be perceived, apprehended, experienced.”
― Lauren Elkin, Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

“Books brought me places and writing kept me in place.”
― Nitya Prakash

“I won't suggest or recommend you anything, at first place you didn't have any type of interest into spending time into this.”
― Deyth Banger

“If you are the cause of the killing of innocent people or the pain to any human heart, with your words, behaviour, or force, it is my belief that your place will be in the hell.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“This is a good place for thinking about your life, a few days in this place.”
― Philip Hensher, The Emperor Waltz

“Home is that place where One Self feels that, that is His/Her Place.”
― Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela

“Physical places ... shape the attitudes of visitors arriving from distant homelands ... the nature of the visited place affects the very tone of a journal entry. It influences the selection of the facts one chooses to jot down about that place.”
― Barry Lopez

“this larger than life space was in fact just a room like any other. It struck Katie then how much it was about the people who filled a space with drama and personality, with love and grudges and out-size emotion, that made a place what it was.”
― Camille Perri, When Katie Met Cassidy

“A great workspace is like a "Toddler Playpen" for entrepreneur. It allows us accomplish our dreams in a safe environment and without any major hazard or concerns...”
― Serge Pamphile

“The bet comes to the place it knows,
It does not miss its former path,
No kind of magic holds it back
It comes to those who give it water.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“The best place to find joy is in God.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“Mi piace questa città al mattino presto, mi piace la sensazione di assoluto anonimato, che ti garantisce New York, di essere un numero tra tanti e di poter ricominciare da capo, mi da speranza.”
― Alice Bruno, Wonderful Bastard: Song to Song

“Until disability reform takes place that looks after all disabled people, you will never see me participate in the Pledge of Allegiance.”
― Steven Magee

“...I have lived entirely, every moment in this wild and delicate place. What more would there be for me to do, if I lived to be one hundred? One bold year is worth a dozen timid ones.”
― Lisa Wingate, Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner

“Deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly.
—Falling Into Place”
― Brian Andreas, Theories of Everything

“There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet.”
― Thomas Moore

“Light minds wish to settle in the right place whereas bright minds wish in setting the place right”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Your passion should push you to a place where you excel in life.”
― Thandazo Perfect Khumalo

“Regarding society, if I am healthy, well fed, live in a warm home and feel safe with my family, then I am in a good place.”
― Steven Magee