Fitting Place Quotes

#1. Come forth, old man,
thy daughter's side
Is now the fitting place for thee:
When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride,
The youthful tendril yet may hide,
The ruins of the parent tree.

Walter Scott

#2. If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.

Margaret Mead

#3. It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

Robert Ballard

#4. The title 'Righteousness' is given to God because He assigns what is appropriate to all things; he distributes their due proportion, beauty, rank, arrangement, their proper and fitting place and order ...

Pope Dionysius

#5. From my experience, moving through life, things tend to go in eight- to 10-year cycles. Friends, relationships and whatnot.

Les Claypool

#6. At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of brotherhood should go out from here.

Ehud Barak

#7. pretending that this wedding was anything other than a declaration of war against his enemies?

Lisa J. Yarde

#8. When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.

Richard Sibbes

#9. Having defined your purpose and mission, you need to implement the program directly concerned with your goals every day

Sunday Adelaja

#10. One god there is, in no way like mortal creatures either in bodily form or in the thought of his mind. The whole of him sees, the whole of him thinks, the whole of him hears. He stays always motionless in the same place; it is not fitting that he should move about now this way, now that.

Xenophanes

#11. Well you know I've been in that place too where you worry about what everybody thinks of you, am I popular, do people care, are they looking at me, all that stuff. That's a drag, man. Having to worry about fitting in, am I cool enough to ANYTHING.

Joan Jett

#12. Don't be silly, my dear. Threats are only meaningful if you have the power to execute them. And you, my dear, do not.

Candace Bushnell

#13. If definitely looks like the sort of place where amazing things happen. I can see why its a place people go with their dreams. And how fitting that I'm coming here, to this home of big dreams, to meet my best friend at last.

Jessica Love

#14. When I was little, like Maleficent, I was told that I was different. And I felt out of place
too loud, too full of fire, never good at sitting still, never good at fitting in. And, then one day I realized something, something that I hope you all realize: Different is good.

Angelina Jolie

#15. We wrote our names in the sand
You crossed mine out: I can't get
back to the way I was.

Kiera Woodhull

#16. Maybe it's wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people.
[as quoted in "Brain Gain" by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 4/27/09 issue]

Paul McHugh

#17. Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

Marilyn Nelson

#18. You can do everything right and still feel out of place.

Joyce Rachelle

#19. If this is the only life, then why I'm not just doing everything I want to do.

James Franco

#20. I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it's all right. It's OK to have that awkward phase.

Rumer Willis

#21. I'd discovered another of life's cliches by being with jude: the happier you are in life, the faster it passes you by.

Nicole Williams

#22. When Aaron arrived at my place - a ground-floor studio fitting my full-size bed, desk, and TV - he came bearing gifts: The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron and two red tension balls. "I figure they'll help you relax and write," he said. We watched my favorite relationship

Janet Mock

#23. The wind blowing through the cracks in the walls was fitting for this isolated and lonely place.

Nancy B. Brewer

#24. The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

#25. What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

George Santayana

#26. Fitting is a luxury rarely given to immigrants, or children of immigrants. We are stuck in emotional purgatory. Home, somehow, is always the last place you left, and never the place you're in.

Scaachi Koul

#27. The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice.

Judy Grahn

#28. When people look at me, they automatically assume I'm dark and weird. Why can't they see the truth? I'm just a girl, trying to find my place in the world.

Gena Showalter