Forgotten Places Quotes

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

We have places in America that really have been just forgotten.

I love this country, but I feel like we're losing sight of who actually holds the power and what makes us great: it's the people, the communities, the small places that are forgotten, everyone that's striving.

I've always liked lost, old New York.

I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.

I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.

He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

The undiscovered places that are interesting to me are these places that contain bits of our disappearing history, like a ghost town.

Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.

Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

Shall memory restore The steps and the shore, The face and the meeting place.

That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten places.

I hope I succeed in demonstrating that you may equally find compelling and significant narratives - stories that alter or add to our understanding of history - in unprepossessing places: a Victorian sewer system; a Cold War bunker; derelict hospitals.