Place Quotes

“There is a place for everyone in the world. When you find yours, your heart will call it home. - Kailin Gow, Fearless Fairy Tales Series”
― Kailin Gow

“You already know that the first thing that makes you foreign to a place is to be born poor in it; you don't need to emigrate to America to feel what you already felt when you were ten, looking up at the rickety concrete roof above your head and knowing that one more bad typhoon would bring it down to crush your bones and the bones of all your siblings sleeping next to you; or selling fruit by the side of the road to people who made sure to never really look at you, made sure not to touch your hands when they put the money in it. You've been foreign all your life. When you finally leave, all you're hoping for is a more bearable kind of foreignness.”
― Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart

“Where we are, there is light.” The wind blew hard from the east and the trees rustled their branches. “From where I’m standing… it is warm enough.”
― K. Ancrum, The Wicker King

“When you allow your instincts, passion, and thinking ability to guide you, the world tends to become a place where you make your own rules and do things as per your wishes.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Make it a point to live your life with respect and compassion – not only for others but also for yourself. That’s the only way you will actually learn about yourself and the world around you. That’s the only way to make the world a better place for the present and the future.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“I am afraid of photographs. I am ashamed they will show
where I really come from. From particles of light, a slow
holding of breath as if I were filling with dirt & I am, because
where I come from is a place outside and it is not normal...”
― Lisa Marie Basile, APOCRYPHAL

“Be on pilgrimage
To a place that's undefined,
Destinationless”
― Eric Overby

“O, that the gods
Would set me free from this unhallow'd place,
Though they did change me to the meanest bird
That flies i' the purer air!”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“seeking a place to rest my head without shame
seeking a father who never worried about me
seeking a mother whose body never hurt
seeking the piano that could play itself
seeking a person who wants to meet me on a train
seeking a person who knows where estonia is
seeking my sense of self i never found–seeking

an end to all of this.”
― Jessie Knoles, Chasing Old Haunts

“Some men fall in love with a woman,
Some women fall in love with a man,
Some men fall in love with another man,
Some women fall in love with another woman -
But I, my dear one, fell in love with Shetland.

- Shetland”
― Jackie Kay, Red, Cherry Red

“You have to reach a certain age before it’s possible to feel affection for the city you were born in, or where you spent your childhood, before you stop allowing familiarity to keep your eyes closed, or stop wanting to run away to find a new adventure every morning.”
― Milena Busquets, This Too Shall Pass

“The I am a fool,” he said bitterly. “But a fool with faith. I am tired of treating hunger pains and mending broken bones with weak painkillers and scrap-wood splints. I must believe there’s something better out there. My people deserve it. You deserve it.”
― Kristen Simmons, Pacifica

“The world is the most sinful place, and the biggest irony is that what you see it's build by humans.”
― Deyth Banger

“Living among towers can tempt you into complacency.”
― Kathryn Davis, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf

“In a way I imagine eternity must be a little like a photograph (a place without time) of the good and bad times we have lived through. And thus, for eternity, we will be living through them for ever, Hell and Heaven at once. Those months I lived beside Fradique will be my Heaven, the time I lived as a slave to Gabriela Santamarinha my Hell.”
― José Eduardo Agualusa, Nação Crioula

“A part of us always remains
when we leave somewhere.
It is a part we can never reclaim
even if we revisit the place
for it was never ours to begin with.
There is so little of ourselves
that belongs to us.
This body is the earth’s.
This heart is yours,
and his and theirs.
The only thing that is our own
is our freedom of will—
our freedom to choose
our attitudes in life.
All else is borrowed.
All else is everyone else’s.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“My close friend was deep in the throes of a book on climate change. She later wrote of hearing 'the great farmer-poet Wendell Berry deliver a lecture on how we each have a duty to love our 'homeplace' more than any other.' When the talk was over, she approached him for guidance. 'I asked him if he had any advice for rootless people like me and my friends, who live in our computers and always seem to be shopping for a home. 'Stop somewhere,' he replied. And begin the thousand-year-long process of knowing that place.”
― Kyo Maclear, Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation

“Sometimes people become a place you will never visit again.”
― Nitya Prakash

“The meaningful design of experiences in physical space now regularly overlaps with the meaningful design of experiences in digital space.”
― Kate O'Neill, Pixels and Place: Connecting Human Experience Across Physical and Digital Spaces

“It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas–whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists, geologists, writers, farmers, ranchers, and bureaucrats–and admit we are lovers engaged in an erotics of place. Loving the land. Honoring its mysteries. Acknowledging, embracing the spirit of place – there is nothing more legitimate and there is nothing more true.
That is why we are here. It is why we do what we do. There is nothing intellectual about it. We love the land. It is a primal affair.”
― Terry Tempest Williams

“The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.”
― Wendell Berry

“There’s something to be said for geographic affinity, all right.”
― Michelle Huneven, Round Rock

“In order to enter that zone we must finally let go of the embodied distances that place grants. But what does this do to what we commonly think of as the past?

I think of cyberspace, which is no place at all, as akin to the dark imaginary out of which poems come, their rhythms, their discrete music punctuating the inner life.”
― Meena Alexander, Poetics of Dislocation

“Find your place in a jigsaw puzzle
of our reality.”
― Enock Maregesi

“In the age of social media, there is no such thing as "just an ordinary human being." Every time you post in social media, you harness the power to speak across time, place, and race. And that makes you extraordinary.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

“Ooty ( The Queen of Hills) stands for beauty and also high- quality tea.”
― Dr Sivakumar Gowder

“Sorry, here is, not any place anymore for anyone, I am already in love since we first come to know each other.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“There is a French expression that says something like: “No one is prophet in his own country.” and there is another one that approximately says: “Who goes hunting loses his place.” somewhere in between i try to find my space.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, running is flying intermittently

“The library is the place I go, when I want to be in the know.”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“What is a woman?
Her brothers' sister, her father's daughter,
Her husband's wife, her children's mother”
― David Elliott, Voices