Quotes about place
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“(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Source: Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

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“One finds nobility in the oddest places.”

Source: Clockwork Prince

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“You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou

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“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”

Variant: Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
Source: Handle with Care

“He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.”

John Grogan (1958) American journalist

Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

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“It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“A conclusion is the place you get to when you’re tired of thinking.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: The Sweetest Thing

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“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom… is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain”

Anthony Bourdain (1956–2018) Chef and food writer

No Reservations - Machu Picchu
Context: It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

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“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”

Variant: Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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“Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push—in just the right place—it can be tipped.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

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“It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

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“Professor Henry Higgins: There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years!”

Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986) lyricist and librettist from the United States

Source: My Fair Lady

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“I looked in my mirror and saw, not myself, but every place I'd never been.”

Emma Donoghue (1969) Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian

Source: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

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Jodi Picoult photo

“Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

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“A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: Perfect

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“College isn't the place to go for ideas.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
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“Big bad merc, down with a basic hip toss. In your place I'd be blushing.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

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“I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot control himself.”

Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War

Comment regarding officers who became inebriated, as quoted in Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1874) by John William Jones, p. 170

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“In the whole world, there was no better place than being wrapped in him.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

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“Redundant comments are just places to collect lies and misinformation.”

Robert C. Martin (1952) American software consultant

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

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“We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

Source: 2015, Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality (June 2015)
Context: I know that Americans of goodwill continue to hold a wide range of views on this issue. Opposition in some cases has been based on sincere and deeply held beliefs. All of us who welcome today’s news should be mindful of that fact; recognize different viewpoints; revere our deep commitment to religious freedom. But today should also give us hope that on the many issues with which we grapple, often painfully, real change is possible. Shifts in hearts and minds is possible. And those who have come so far on their journey to equality have a responsibility to reach back and help others join them. Because for all our differences, we are one people, stronger together than we could ever be alone. That’s always been our story. We are big and vast and diverse; a nation of people with different backgrounds and beliefs, different experiences and stories, but bound by our shared ideal that no matter who you are or what you look like, how you started off, or how and who you love, America is a place where you can write your own destiny.

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“Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Source: Sayings of Confucius

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“No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

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“Because my spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Six - Pooh.