Place Quotes
Where you land shapes who you become.
These quotes look at place from more than one angle - the town that never quite feels like "home-home," the city that opens doors for a career, and the place you land after years of searching. Some reflect on where opportunity struck; others just accept a city for what it gave them. Read on for more perspective in our Great Quotes collection.
There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.
The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study.
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The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.
Always Quotes
I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
I have a new book coming out, so I do movie, book, movie, book, movie, book, every place we go.
All my stories take place on the West Coast - not the beach, but smaller inland towns. I feel homesick, and I find inspiration in capturing that.
Go Quotes
For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.
We had never before seen a place where European influence had not contributed to smooth and soften the rough features of uncultivated nature. The prospect of Rangoon, as we approached, was quite disheartening.
Great Quotes
Even the duster in my house has to be beautiful; no old piece of cloth will ever be used in its place.
On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it...
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
I always knew that in the U.S., if you wanted to be a wrestler, Ring of Honor was the place to be.
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What do the 'place' quotes on this page have in common?
Is there a quote about careers moving from place to place?
Does any quote talk about a city someone is still adjusting to?
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Whether it's a place tied to enterprise and history or simply the spot where everything finally lined up, these lines treat location as more than a backdrop. For related reflections, browse Always Quotes and Go Quotes.
