Top 599 Place Quotes

I would like to leave the world a better place than when I entered it. I would hope that by the time I die I could have learned from the years of living and hand something down.

All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils in the wrong place.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.

A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

The road is a nasty place and lonely.

When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.

I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made.

Every place has a story – or a thousand stories. Findery brings places to life, be they where you stand or where you hope to go.

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they’re letting the worst patients run the place.

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too.

I’m very interested in buildings that have meaning for a particular place. I suppose it feels slightly rude to me if the imposed style that lands in a place is almost stronger than the place. For me it’s about inventing a solution for each place; if people then want to know who did it, then great.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. And you devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this place and in this country when you break down and make it conditional for anyone.

I’m not drawn to actresses, but I have no rules about that. I just want to be around positive people. The toughest thing will be to find a girl who will be prepared to live in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the country. I don’t think L.A.’s the place to find one.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

When takers talk about mistakes, they’re usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say ‘Here’s the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I’m taking to make sure I don’t let people down in the future.’

The football field, I’d definitely say that’s my safe place.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

I can’t imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Technology makes the world a new place.

When you lose a spouse, you’re a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you’re an orphan. When you lose a child, there’s no word in the English language for that position, that place that you’re left.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

I like to run in a new place to help me find my way around.

I don’t want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted.

A desert is a place without expectation.

Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

What a blessing that God allows a life to come through your body, and then allows you to place that body in a body bag and take it out. I had to say that there’s a magnificent something that God has for me to do, to give me that level of completion. That level of experience. It’s unspeakable.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

When I was signed by Elite Model Agency, my mom felt it was the right place as it was a professional agency.

The greatest thing about America is this country is the place everyone wants to be.

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

I hope I’m not a tourist attraction – I’m sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

There’s a time and a place for everything. There’s a time to sleep, wake up, there’s a time to be graceful, and there’s a time to be aggressive.

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don’t think it’s just a hall of fame and it’s not just a museum. It’s a schoolhouse. It’s a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we’re making a living out of.

I’m actually quite a nice person. It’s to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I’m doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There’s obviously something that really gets them.

Hollywood is a strange place if you’re in trouble. Everybody thinks it’s contagious.

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There’s no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.