Quotes About Places To Live

#1. I ended up living at OJ's because Nicole bought a home that no longer had a guest house. OJ offered his guest house to me. Anybody in LA looking for a place knows the best places to live are guest houses.

Kato Kaelin

#2. Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live.

David Binder

#3. You can choose better relationships, better jobs, better places to live, better uses of your time and better ways of treating yourself.

Bryant McGill

#4. Louisville, Colorado, which was just voted by CNN and Money magazine as the best place to live, is a veritable Whitopia that is unaffected by the housing crisis and even the severe recession. You look at the best places to live, according to Money's 2009 list, and 9 of the 10 are Whitopias.

Richard Benjamin

#5. It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.

Joanne Harris

#6. Publications such as Forbes and Fortune continually rank Georgia cities as among the best places to live, work and run a business.

Roy Barnes

#7. The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

Nathan Myhrvold

#8. I spend half my time in Montana, the other half in New York City. In unique ways, both places help me unwind, and both are the most satisfying places to live I can imagine.

Jeff Shaara

#9. I'm not good at living in the grim places ... when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.

Bruce Dern

#10. To live in this world, I realized, is to leave pieces of your heart in various places; and to move toward any place is to move away from another.

Frederic S. Durbin

#11. There are two things that give me perfect happiness - doing the perfect shot and travelling. I get stressed, really stressed by the fact that there is just so much to see and I am not going to live long enough to visit all the places I want to.

Anushka Sharma

#12. The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk to people and visit interesting places, and don't forget to ask questions. To be a writer you need to drink in the world around you so it's always there in your head.

Michael Morpurgo

#13. I visited many places,
Some of them quite
Exotic and far away,
But I always returned to myself.

Dejan Stojanovic

#14. The earth is not the same everywhere. Certain powers are available in one part of the earth that are not available in another part. The rich realize this. They live in these places and they use that power to stay rich.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

Robert Hass

#16. Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation in 1790, however, was a real world, laden with legacies like slavery, and therefore too true to be good.

Joseph J. Ellis

#17. Writers do not write about places, they write about people who happen to live in those places. This is something that the labellers and their labels don't understand either.

Aminatta Forna

#18. I have received many touching letters and emails from people who live in the most religious parts of the country, in places like rural Texas, saying it is so good to see someone be able to say I am an atheist without shame.

Susan Jacoby

#19. And we debate whether it's a - some woman's right to tear you out of there a piece at a time! C'mon! You have a God-given right to live. And of all places, inside your mother - what in the world happened to us?

Phil Robertson

#20. I found my place when I moved to London, where I chose to live, making my own tribe who were all from different backgrounds and places. The class thing is very dominant there, but in the cultural cross-fertilization, I felt a sense of belonging.

Neneh Cherry

#21. Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

G. Willow Wilson

#22. It's not prettier or better than other places and it sure a shell isn't an easy place, but I know how to live here. And that counts.

Deborah Coates

#23. I work in the house next to where I live. We bought a smaller house that I use as my office and the place where my two employees work ... We've got tens of thousands of letters from kids stored all over the house in places you would usually put dishes and other things like that.

Jeff Kinney

#24. One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.

Jean Baudrillard

#25. I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.

Chang-rae Lee

#26. As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to go to new places, meet different people know and learn about things which you didn't know about.

Shahid Kapoor

#27. It's very important where you live. Because where you live, the energies make it easier or more difficult to dream. In certain places dreams are very manifest and very strong. So you should always pick a place to live that's good to dream in. One of the best places to dream is by the ocean.

Frederick Lenz

#28. We live in the land of opportunities. People come from all over the world to hustle and work their way up to places that they could only imagine or dream of.

Farshad Asl

#29. Living together places a huge burden on the other person to be lover, friend, entertainments manager, chef, domestic help, which is almost impossible and can lead to disappointment. If you don't live together, you spend more time with other people and ease the pressure off your lover.

Deborah Moggach

#30. If you want to live greatly, you must also be willing to risk greatly. To get to the pearls, the diver needs to be willing to go deep and visit the places that the timid souls would never visit.

Robin S. Sharma

#31. If you live in certain places, in a certain way, you'd better learn to praise the small felicities.

Michael Cunningham

#32. Fat Charlie, if someone ever ask if you want to live to be hunnert and four, say no. Everything hurt. Everything. I hurt in places nobody ain't discover yet.

Neil Gaiman

#33. If we do not do something to prevent it, Africa's animals, and the places in which they live, will be lost to our world, and her children, forever. Before it is too late, we need your help to lay the foundation that will preserve this precious legacy long after we are gone.

Nelson Mandela

#34. As long as you continue to travel, the nowhere that lies between the here of home and the there of somewhere else will continue to be one of the places where you live.

Paul Auster

#35. Some people are afraid of gentrification, but what I see is young people want to live in a different world. And they see possibilities here. They see that rents are relatively cheap compared to places like New York and California.

Grace Lee Boggs

#36. It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

Janet Frame

#37. First Globals are ready to go anywhere, experience everything, and work and live in exotic places, and for them, family life takes priority over work life and a flexible, diverse, collaborative, fun learning environment is key.

Susan Scott

#38. For women live much more in the past ... they attach themselves to places;

Virginia Woolf

#39. Hollywood's a great place to live ... if you're a grapefruit.

Rod Serling

#40. I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish.

Wilford Brimley

#41. Middlesbrough is the second greatest place to live in Britain! Behind Hartlepool.

Jeff Stelling

#42. The suburb in the 1950s was a bedroom community. The father worked in the city, and the mother stayed home. Now people live and work in the suburbs, and businesses have grown up or moved from cities to certain pockets of what was once the suburbs and created these places that are like cities.

Richard Hayne

#43. Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us so that we could die up front and then live. Jesus Christ wants to take us to places where only dead men and women can go.

Erwin McManus

#44. If you live everyday, with the capacity to stretch yourself past limitation and structure, you will find boundless opportunity is all the places that once scared you.

Nikki Rowe

#45. At Hartford or New Haven or one of those other places where no one in their right fucking mind would want to live.

Stephen King

#46. Blessed are those who can find light in dark places, courageous enough to feel when it's time to reflect & hopeful enough to believe when all seems impossible. We don't have enough pioneers like this, and I wonder if it's because they were afraid to live and afraid to learn?

Nikki Rowe

#47. Colombians might live in one of best places in the world to grow coffee beans, yet their cups of coffee come from dehydrated granules in tiny plastic packages. This is the definition of tragedy.

Bryanna Plog

#48. You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.

Bess Myerson

#49. Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in a happy bubble. But part of being happy is understanding how sad things can be.

Laurel Nakadate

#50. Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area.

Marcus Samuelsson

#51. Gujarat, with its all inclusive, sustainable and rapid growth, is emerging as a globally preferred place to live in and to do business.

Narendra Modi

#52. ... and it was extraordinary to me that some of the newspapers could have found good words for the butchery on the coast. But people are like that bout places in which they aren't really interested and where thy don't have to live.

V.S. Naipaul

#53. I wasn't really living anywhere ... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places.

Bob Livingston

#54. ...we tear down the places where birds live, and put up places where people live, or places where people work to earn the money to pay for the places they live. We don't ask the birds for permission, nor do they complain about it. To a bird there is no tearing down or putting up.

John Porcellino

#55. We all tend to think of ourselves as the last unsinning inhabitants of whatever place we live in. We don't usually recognize ourselves as participants in its destruction.

David Owen

#56. What's broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live ... I'm too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.

Margaret Mitchell

#57. We are called to go make disciples, but how do disciples live? How do we function in the world - in our marriages, families, schools and places of business? How do we live as salt and light in the society?

Michael Brown

#58. We others are not like you. We are more prickly, more jittery, more restless, more secretive, more desperate, more cowardly, more bold. We live at the edges of ourselves, not in the middle places. We leave that to you.

Steven Millhauser

#59. Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.

Rumi

#60. A man is a fool to live in hopes of a better tomorrow. I have a thousand, better ways today to spend what time remains ahead of me, and I have brighter, lighter and more pleasant places in which to spend it.

Jack Whyte

#61. I like to live in places that are kind of off in the cuts so people can't really find me even if they wanted to.

Ricky Williams

#62. Economics is important because it's possible to buy the places that are necessary to live in relative inaccessibility and seclusion, or to move with a bit of style and chicness into the middle of civilization.

Frederick Lenz

#63. No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

Diane Guerrero

#64. Oh no. I split my time between Paris and New York. They're the only places to really live.

Naomi Wood

#65. Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.

N. T. Wright

#66. For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

Don DeLillo

#67. I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

Don Bluth

#68. I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.

David Guetta

#69. It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#70. We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.

Jackie Chan

#71. My life as a professional athlete has allowed me the opportunity to visit and live in many different places and meet many interesting and diverse people.

Scott Pruett

#72. She wanted the city to be full of exclusive places turning people away, as long as they always accommodated her. It didn't work like that. What a stupid place to live - stretched thin, overbooked, sold out in advance.

Jennifer Egan

#73. It's what we live for, to be able to make great illusions. The thing about 'Entourage' is everything we do is realistic. We go to the real places, we shoot on location. We get the real people. It's a perfect marriage between fact and fiction.

Adrian Grenier

#74. So you're going to horrible places and meeting horrible people and you're complaining about it? Live your life like a decent person. Go to the grocery store, buy your own food, take care of yourself. If you live a responsible life, you'll run into responsible people," he said.

Aziz Ansari

#75. The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.

Vance Havner

#76. I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a book, you come to new places and live new lives.

Joy Cowley

#77. I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.

Norman Lewis

#78. The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.

Johann Joachim Becher

#79. I'm fortunate to live in Wyoming, one of the most beautiful, pristine places in the world.

John Barrasso

#80. I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.

Rafael Nadal

#81. We do need the federal government to share information with us. We need local governments to increase supply. We need affordable places for people to live.

Christy Clark

#82. People who live in the last places-the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world- often represent the best of who we are and the finest standards of what we are to become.

Greg Mortenson

#83. I live in South Africa. I'm proud to live there. I've always said I want to be a comedian from South Africa in the world. I will stay in places for a bit here and there and pop into New York for a while, maybe stay in London for a year, but my home will always be South Africa. I enjoy it too much.

Trevor Noah

#84. The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.

Gloria Steinem

#85. I'm not sure what I'll do, but - well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#86. The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised.

Margaret Atwood

#87. Reality is the place we need to live, but our imaginations harbor the greatest places to visit!

Giuseppe Bianco

#88. The best part of living in constant terror is you always have a place to live.

Dana Gould

#89. I have been on the margins in terms of having to find a place to live and getting a job, but at some point, and before that point, I always thought no matter where I am, that's the center.

Aleksandar Hemon

#90. Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that made them beautiful are the same forces that will ultimately destroy them.

Simon Winchester

#91. Rural and traditional escapism. That's my angle. Places and events where we are free to relax and be ourselves, where nobody tells us to hurry along or conform or grow up. Somewhere we can properly live.

Fennel Hudson

#92. It's a test case of what I believe; people can live together but still keep their own values intact. Seeing this crowd of individuals from different places, it appeals to the human side of me, and the intellectual side of me.

Teju Cole

#93. I split time between Nebraska and Florida. I'll come to Nebraska in the summertime and stay through Thanksgiving and then I go back to Florida because I have family in both places. One of the reasons I got the place in Nebraska is I've always wanted to live back in Nebraska.

Larry The Cable Guy

#94. Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

Thomas P. Campbell

#95. Looking at these photographs, I know that I will never understand the world I live in or fully know the places I've been. I've learned for sure only what I don't know - and how much I have to learn.

Anthony Bourdain

#96. Invest in places that make sense so you can afford to live in places that don't make sense.

Jason Hartman

#97. The baptized in their sense of mission, through prayer, the witness of life and Christian commitment in all its forms, so that all the faithful may become missionaries in the places where they live and that vocations will come forth to proclaim the Gospel to men who do not yet know it.

Pope Benedict XVI

#98. I wanted to live spontaneously and to find myself in wild places, with wild people, and have wild times.

Sophia Amoruso

#99. I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.

John Banville

#100. People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.

M. E. W. Sherwood