Place Quotes - page 8

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. (Theodor Adorno)
This is the place. Stand still, my steed, Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art. View quote
Susan Sontag
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. View quote
Cicero
Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars. View quote
Jack Kerouac
You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed. That has nothing to do with the business of the State. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. View quote
Adnan Oktar
No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society. View quote
John Rawls
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. View quote
Madeleine Albright
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. View quote
John Ruskin
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them. (Margaret Mead)
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ''Go to sleep by yourselves.'' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help. View quote
Margaret Mead
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them. View quote
Karen Blixen
Let him go abroad to a distant country let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. View quote
Théophile Gautier
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must at that moment become the center of the universe. View quote
Elie Wiesel
The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature. View quote
Jane Goodall
CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions. (Emil Cioran)
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. View quote
Maya Angelou
The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company. View quote
Seneca
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. View quote
Joseph Addison