“A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Quotes about place page 15
James Baldwin book Giovanni's Room
for the lack of it.' Pt. 1, Ch. 3 - p.51
Source: Giovanni's Room (1956)
“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
Source: Given
“It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.”
John Buchan (1875–1940) British politician
Source: The 39 Steps
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer
Variant: This world is an awful/ugly place not to have a best friend.
Source: Someone Like You (1998)
“What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.”
Dr. Jonas Lear
Variant: I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to. What dark passages.
Source: The Passage Trilogy, The Passage (2010)
“We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 30, Colonel Sanders
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Context: "Ah." The Blue Man nodded. "Well people often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you the first."
“Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.”
Sabrina Ward Harrison (1975) Canadian writer
“You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
“When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.”
Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Women need a reason to have sex; men need only a place.”
Nelson DeMille book Wild Fire
Source: Wild Fire
Anne Rivers Siddons (1936–2019) novelist from the United States
Source: Colony
“Home isn't a place, its a feeling”
Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie
Variant: I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.
Source: Love, Rosie
“… because where we are is always the most important place.”
Philip Pullman book The Amber Spyglass
Source: The Amber Spyglass
Patti Callahan Henry American writer
Source: Between The Tides
“Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.”
Eva Ibbotson book A Countess Below Stairs
Source: A Countess Below Stairs
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet
Source: Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
“Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.”
Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.”
Isaac Babel (1894–1940) Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer
Source: The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Variant: Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true.
Source: City of Bones
“You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found…”
Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider”
Anthony Horowitz (1955) English novelist and screenwriter
“Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
“Reading can take you places you have never been before.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Lora Leigh (1965) American writer
Source: Wicked Pleasure
“Heaven is not a place, and it's not a time. Heaven is being perfect.”
Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms
Source: A Farewell to Arms
Dermot Bolger (1959) Irish writer
Source: The Journey Home
“Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.”
Michael Pollan book The Omnivore's Dilemma
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer
Source: Aloha from Hell
L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Context: The Scarecrow listened carefully, and said, "I cannot understand why you should wish to leave this beautiful country and go back to the dry, gray place you call Kansas."
"That is because you have no brains" answered the girl. "No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home."
The Scarecrow sighed.
"Of course I cannot understand it," he said. "If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains."
James Madison Federalist Papers
Federalist No. 51 (6 February 1788)
1780s, Federalist Papers (1787–1788)
Source: The Federalist Papers
Context: If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
E. Lockhart book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“You write poems
because you need
a place
where what isn’t may be”
Alejandra Pizarnik (1936–1972) Argentinian poet
Sarra Manning (1950) British writer
Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
“Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.”
Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings
Source: The Way of Kings
T.S. Eliot book Four Quartets
Variant: We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
Source: Four Quartets
“There’s a place in the soul where you’ve never been wounded.”
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
“I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter