Place Quotes

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

I like New York.

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way that any definition is liable to be challenged, but one must draw a distinction between them, since two different and even opposing ideas are involved. By ‘patriotism’ I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality.

I don't think I could set a book in a place without knowing it really well.

I love Baltimore, I definitely look at it as home, somewhere I'm very comfortable.

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

Hollywood is an idea. It's not a real place.

Being in New Zealand, which is incredibly beautiful - I think it's paradise - it's just the perfect place. Everything about it I love, and I would love to live there.

... the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place.

The Earth is a place. It is by no means the only place. It is not even a typical place.

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

I have converted this Cape from a barren waste…to a desirable place of refreshment.

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch.

Mexico's a great place to overcome a drug addiction.

Home was quite a place when people stayed there.

New York is my home.

Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

Israel is a wonderful country, especially Tel Aviv.

London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet.