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

“How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Love

“One finds nobility in the oddest places.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Question

“If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.”

Eric Clapton (1945) English musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

Anne Tyler (1941) American novelist

Life, Reading

“They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Love, Heart, Cry

“Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Wisdom

“Because we managed to keep our heart open, despite the pain.
Because we realized that the person who left us did not take the sun with them or leave darkness in their place.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Pain, Sun, Heart, Personality

“It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Secret, World, Time

“The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Question, Universe, Personality

“I’ll do this to you till there’s something to take the place of your vows—until you see the two of us together as your religion.” (Garreth)”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Pleasure of a Dark Prince

Religion

“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

Spring

“I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching.
Love, Dimitri”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Love, World

“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

“A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.”

Sarah Strohmeyer (1950) American writer

Source: Kindred Spirits

Baby

“And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Feeling, Time

“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.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

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

Travel

“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

Love, Art

“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

World, Learning, Help

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

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: The Sweetest Thing

Thinking

“The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Life, Appearance

“There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: Jayber Crow

Heart

“Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

Source: Paint it Black

“The world is full of places to which I want to return”

Ford Madox Ford book The Good Soldier

Source: The Good Soldier

World

“While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.”

Jack Vance (1916–2013) American mystery and speculative fiction writer

Color, Light, Wine, Past

“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.

Wisdom

“Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall, the place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will. What carries you to the other side of that wall, to the fragile beauty of your own humanness?”

Oriah Mountain Dreamer (1954) Canadian author

Beauty

“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.”

Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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

“Wow, that was fun. Any place else you want to take me while we’re here? Maybe there’s a darker corner of hell than that hall of flesh-hungry demons, huh? (Sin)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

Hell

“Different time, different place,” I said. “Things can change. People can change.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

People, Change, Time

“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

World

“The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Life, Happiness, Freedom

“So just look mean and don’t make eye contact with anyone. (Syn)
Gee, hon, you take me to the most wonderful places. (Shahara)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Fire

“They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself. That is the lesson of Babylon 5.”

J. Michael Straczynski (1954) American writer and television producer

From the Babylon 5 Calendar (1998).

Dreams, Future

“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

People, Thinking

“… In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers…”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

Summer

“It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.”

Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections

Source: The Corrections

People, Way

“Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.”

Mark Buchanan (1961) American physicist

Source: Your God Is Too Safe

God, Faith

“The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other.
-Kheldar”

David Eddings book King of the Murgos

Source: King of the Murgos

Night

“Listen,' Clover said. 'Don't worry about not being able to come back, I've lived both places, and trust me, you won't be getting the short end of the stick if you end up in Foo. I mean, candy alone…”

Obert Skye (1970) American writer

“You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.”

L. Frank Baum book Ozma of Oz

Source: Ozma of Oz

Youth, Country

“The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

Truth, World

“My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

World, Peace, Travel, Sense

“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Search, Effort, Heart

“I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for the other it's all hit-or-miss macaroni gratin.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

People, World

“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 book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Love, People

“I am concentrating docilely on the question why U. S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Question, Appearance

“Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.”

Alice Sebold book Lucky

Source: Lucky

Family, Problem, Learning, Country

“It doesn't matter what people thinks of you as long as you know that your heart and head are in the right place.”

Steve Kluger book Almost Like Being in Love

Source: Almost Like Being in Love

People, Thinking, Heart

“When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

God, Sense, Change

“It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.”

Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter

People, Forgiveness, Powerful

“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

“God is the Champion at bringing people from a place of destruction to a place of total victory. As they reach that place of victory they become trophies of his grace. and they are set on the display as a fragrant reminder of God's goodness.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing

God, People, Victory

“An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.”

Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) British politician

Happiness, Books, World

“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

“I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

Men, Fate, People

“If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Music

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

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Love, People, Home

“In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

Thinking, Time

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

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: Perfect

Flowers

“Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Children, People

“The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.”

Tom Clancy book Clear and Present Danger

Source: Clear and Present Danger

Life, World

“I want to punish them. I want that punishment to be so hard, so vicious that the next who takes their place wets himself at the mere thought of trying to fight me.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Fight

“[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

Life, Personality

“We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

Source: Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

Nature

“I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.”

Alan M. Dershowitz (1938) American lawyer, author

Source: Letters to a Young Lawyer

God, Question

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

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Idea

“Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them”

Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer

Change

“Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

Love, Fear

“Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Pleasure, Thinking

“Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Life, Sadness, Dreams, Spring

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

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

World, Travel

“I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" — one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, (1963)
Source: I Have A Dream

Faith, Beauty, Dreams, Hope

“I hate this place,” Tiara whimpered. “It’s super creepy. Like a haunted Chuck E. Cheese’s where the games all want to kill you and you never get your pizza.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

Hate, Game

“The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea

Source: Gift from the Sea

Thinking, Reading

“He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.”

Michael Chabon book Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys (1995)

Soul

“There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

Thinking, Parting

“My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.”

Maira Kalman (1949) Israeli American artist and creator of children's books

Source: The Principles of Uncertainty

World, Dreams, Shoe, Travel

“Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

“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

“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

“A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Dream Lake

Soul

“To Homer, libraries were holy places like churches, and the priestly librarians a blessed race, a saving remnant in a world of sin. Whenever God grew impatient and decided to destroy the world he remembered the librarians and stayed his hand.”

Jane Langton (1922–2018) Novelist, children's writer

God, World

“That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

World

“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

World

“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

“Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Feeling

“The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.”

Salman Rushdie book The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses (1988)

World

“Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.”

David Fontana (1934–2010) British psychologist

Universe, Parting

“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.

Dreams, Hope