Top 100 Quotes About Places
#1. All right, when you guys start talking about waxing unmentionable places, that's my cue to get the hell out of here.
J. Lynn
#2. Gardening is about communication, relationships, routines and life-enrichment. Gardens are places that connect us to the seasons and the life cycle. They're a vehicle for talking about esoteric and - as far as TV goes - alien topics such as beauty and fulfilment.
Costa Georgiadis
#4. people must find themselves in places that are not their homes, and among groups who were not previously their friends. Protest
Timothy Snyder
#5. The jury, having swallowed at one nauseating gulp the business of viewing the body, had settled into their places with that air of conscious importance and simulated modesty which belongs to those initiated into a mystery.
Josephine Tey
#6. Today the wind and I burst through the double doors together, and it carries me like someone who's going places, because now it's official. I am.
Jessi Kirby
#8. Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.
Cesar Chavez
#9. The heart aches through nights - the broken places of neglect
John Geddes
#10. I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for reading story collections as collections. That's not true of all story collections, to be honest, but for good ones I think it often is true.
Brian Evenson
#11. In the timeless and universal manner of authors conversing in public places, he did not fail to mention its title, Volume III of Principia Mathematica entitled, The System of the World, available shortly, where books are sold.
Neal Stephenson
#12. I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places.
Terry Pratchett
#13. Everyone had taken their places, when I excused myself to visit the bathroom, and there, in the toilet, was the absolute biggest turd I have ever seen in my life - no toilet paper or anything, just this long and coiled specimen, as thick as a burrito.
David Sedaris
#14. Until you become wiser, you won't become more powerful. Until you become more powerful you won't master higher magic. Until you master higher magic, you won't go into places that are dangerous. Your situation is unique. You were affected by" - he frowned - "the
Sergei Lukyanenko
#15. She'd spent years working at places that were just a job and it didn't make it easier that you didn't care about it. If anything, it made it harder.
Jennifer Close
#16. I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that.
Christina Milian
#17. I have come to New York because it is the most forlorn of places, the most abject. The brokenness is everywhere, the disarray is universal. You have only to open your eyes to see it. The broken people, the broken things, the broken thoughts. The whole city is a junk heap.
Paul Auster
#18. Life has a sense of humour; it hides its best treasures in unexpected places.
Mensah Oteh
#19. I saw [Ronald] Reagan. I've watched Jimmy Carter and his selflessness, getting involved in things like votes in African countries, but also putting his foot right into the whole Israel-Palestine crisis. Sometimes into places where people are going, "Why are you doing that?" .
David Mandel
#20. Most of the places I've been, I've been a main piece of the puzzle.
Eric Davis
#21. If you have slightly pathological interest in all the components of places, it forces you to engage with them in a way that perhaps otherwise you wouldn't, and that's the only way I can put it.
Jonathan Meades
#22. With her it was like there was two places - the inside room and the outside room.
Carson McCullers
#23. Will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?"
"The mirror's a great place to start
Rachel Caine
#24. It's true to say that once I've got the bare bones of a story, I often get ideas from my own research trips to faraway places.
Michelle Paver
#25. I think parks like these are the best places to people-watch. The diversity of people here is really cool and, again I find myself wondering what they're doing and why they're here and who they're with. I'm far too curious for my own good.
Estelle Maskame
#26. First Avenue is one of my favorite places to play. All along, they've treated me with respect.
Lizzo
#27. Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected.
Toni Sorenson
#28. Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter ... I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done ... But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger.
Syd Barrett
#29. The children of the world are all separated one from another because their hearts are in different places; but the children of God, having their heart where their treasure is, and all having only one treasure which is the same God, are, consequently, always joined and united together.
Francis De Sales
#30. I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.
Lamorne Morris
#31. I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.
Tayari Jones
#32. I come from, I come from a small county Outside of Washington, D.C., Called PG County. And, me, my mom, my brother, We moved so many different places growing up, And it felt like a box. Felt like there was no getting out.
Kevin Durant
#33. I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.
Tim Scott
#34. I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.
Aziz Ansari
#35. Jesus is the Word made flesh, and that "knowing Jesus" demands embracing the Jesus of the Bible, not the Jesus of someone's imagination. The whole Bible. Even the places that took my life captive.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#36. But I am wise if not yet quite old, wanting the poem more than the lover, wanting words more than the sticky dew men secrete in their private places.
Erica Jong
#37. Long before Starbucks popularized the phrase 'the third place' - somewhere to interact outside of work and home - it was neighborhood restaurants that helped to define places like Union Square.
Danny Meyer
#38. I considered moving to New York or Los Angeles, but they're two of the hardest places to move to when you're just starting out in a band.
Dave Keuning
#39. And, in fact, there is a connection, the people who designed this here program and who implement it are the same people who are overseeing and helping in the interrogations of detainees in places like Guantanamo.
Jane Mayer
#40. joy and love came from so many places and often went hand in hand with pain.
Tracy Ewens
#41. I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.
Hanneli Mustaparta
#42. Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country.
John James Audubon
#43. I've gotten to go to a lot of places that I never would have been able to go and been able to meet a lot of people. And every now and then you'll be doing something and you're like, "I can't believe I get to do this."
Rob Huebel
#44. I think of my own epitaph, still to be written, and all the places I'll wander. No longer rooted, but gold, flowing. I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. -Violet
Jennifer Niven
#45. Places don't stay where you left them. You go back there, anywhere, and even if it looks exactly how it did before, it's somewhere else.
Alan Moore
#46. I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.
Olivia Munn
#47. The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.
Robert Jackson
#48. But that is what islands are for; they are places where different destinies can meet and intersect in the full isolation of time.
Lawrence Durrell
#49. I had to figure out how to survive in New York, and most of my time was occupied in getting an apartment and getting money. A lot of older jazz guys looked out for me and found me gigs and places to stay.
Wynton Marsalis
#50. There are places which exist in this world beyond the reach of imagination.
Daniel J. Rice
#51. I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.
Montel Williams
#52. The car is my father's magic carpet. Not only does it get him places, but it shows him places.
Daniel Wallace
#53. Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.
Jill Scott
#54. Stories, he thought. All they created was a yearning for faraway places.
Melina Marchetta
#55. Already, Seattle is taking hold of her. She still holds Sedona in the dry tan of her skin and in her hair, but the fine mist of the Northwest is making its way to places she didn't know were parched.
Susan Wiggs
#56. To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, ... to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.
Ernest Hemingway,
#57. The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?
Brendan Benson
#58. I'm not like paparazzi. I never force myself on anyone. I always ask, and some places offer money. And so I try and get these photos to give you, the viewer, a real look at what I was seeing.
Henry Rollins
#59. Our Christian enthusiasts are evidently too stupid, as well as too insecure, to appreciate this. A revealing mark of their insecurity is their rage when public places are not annually given over to religious symbolism, and now, their fresh rage when palaces of private consumption do not follow suit.
Christopher Hitchens
#60. When you're called by God, when He places that call upon your life, there is an authority you begin to walk in.
Sam Roberts
#61. I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.
Edi Gathegi
#62. Jess." He whispers. "That was far from manhandling you sweetheart. I'm just claiming what I want, and make no mistake," He places tender kisses along my jaw leading down to my neck. "I. Always. Get. What. I. Want." He breathes in between kisses. "You would do pretty well to remember that." -Max Wild
S.M. Phillips
#63. It is a great skill to have friends in low places. They, too, have things to teach you.
Gail Carriger
#64. Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
Venus Williams
#65. Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.
Pedro Almodovar
#66. 3For the LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
Anonymous
#67. When I was little, we moved around a lot, actually. In second grade, I think I went to three different schools. We were in Nevada and Oregon and as well as a few different places in Nebraska. I did go to high school in the same town.
Emily Kinney
#68. Sebastian smiled lazily as he came to her. Taking her shoulders in his hands, he slid an appraising
glance along her half-clad body. Don't remove a single freckle, sweet. I found some in the most
enchanting places. I already have my favorites ... shall I tell you where they are?
Lisa Kleypas
#69. I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.
Bruce Cockburn
#70. I've kind of achieved everything I thought that I never would, so I haven't really got a bucket list. But I really wanna go to loads of different places.
Gabrielle Aplin
#71. She had the feeling that somehow, in the very far-off places, perhaps even in far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all sorrow and an answer too fair and wonderful to be as yet understood.
Hannah Hurnard
#72. He thought about all the holes in him, the blank places, the voids where others felt things. When it came down to it, he was really just a screen, more empty than solid, his emotions blowing through him, only angry catching and holding.
J.R. Ward
#73. If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,
how much anxiety and danger would vanish.
Henry David Thoreau
#74. A very few lonely pioneers make their way to high places never before visited ... they create the living conditions of mankind and the majority are living on their work.
Kristian Birkeland
#75. The will to victory may be demonstrated in places other than actual battle.
Steven Pressfield
#76. If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.
Vanilla Ice
#77. Places like Ministry of Sound are too druggie for me. Smaller, local places are where it's at for me.
Katie Price
#78. Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends' secret places.
Tana French
#79. I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?
Sue Monk Kidd
#80. I write in all sorts of places; it's a legacy of my time as a journalist, where I could turn out copy in a hotel corridor. But I have a little office that I rent in my local town, and that's my ideal place.
Jojo Moyes
#81. A mother draws a map for her child and places herself at the center of it. Her death wipes that map clean. She leaves you knowing you must redraw it to survive and yet not knowing where to start.
Kate Kerrigan
#82. I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind, and get stuck there. I couldn't see a way to get out.
Joan Osborne
#83. Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.
Frederick Lenz
#84. I suppose the problem ... is that we have an inside and an outside. We've got problems both places, but it's so hard to tell where the one stops and the other takes up.
Samuel R. Delany
#85. My favorite theory is one I call the Get-Along-or-Die Theory. In warm places, this theory states, life is too easy; your next meal simply falls from a coconut tree. Cooperation with others is optional. In colder places, though, cooperation is mandatory.
Eric Weiner
#86. Menders of all times and places have taught that silencing the thoughts in our heads and opening to the experience of the body and emotions is the basis of all healing. It's the only means by which we can reclaim our true nature or feel the subtle cues telling us how to find our way through life.
Martha N. Beck
#87. Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.
Martha Beck
#88. Love people, not places. Places don't miss you when you're gone.
Marty Rubin
#89. I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.
Andrew Bird
#90. The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: people don't encounter it normally, they don't see it in their big supermarkets, they don't see people smoking in public places, they don't see tobacco vending machines.
Andrew Lansley
#91. It will be interesting to have chance to view and the places from rich and poor to see what happens... if somebody knows the chance to do it it's smaller than before.
Deyth Banger
#92. All the Ping-Pong and pool tables, on-site chefs, Nerf hoops, and stereo systems cannot make up for the truth that some places work people like dogs.
Ken Wilber
#93. You do not choose the life you will experience ahead of time. You may select the persons, places and events - the conditions and circumstances, the challenges, the opportunities and options - with which to create experiences. What you create with these is your business.
Neale Donald Walsch
#94. Nevertheless, an uneasy suspicion lurked that he could jangle the knocker on a door to forgotten places in her psyche. A door she had no intention of opening - even a tiny crack.
Jen Yates
#95. The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.
R.D. Laing
#96. People with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward
Haruki Murakami
#97. I cannot deny that on a breezy summer's day, Fishers Island is one of the most idyllic places possible for a round of golf.
Tom Doak
#98. I've been going long enough to prove what I wanted to prove, to get the girl I wanted to get, to make the money I wanted to make, to drink all the beer I wanted to drink. I've played - not exactly everywhere, but I've played enough places.
Joe Perry
#99. Christian oftentimes meant walking through dark places in the journey and living only on an unseen, unfelt faith.
Karen Kingsbury
#100. here are beautiful places inside him, where laughter comes easy, where sweet words appear like surprises. But I also know his bitter valleys. The dark caves where he hides his fears, his hurts, and his disillusionments. And he knows mine.
Lia Riley
