Place Quotes

We should have imposed new sanctions in 2013 and maintained the strength of our negotiating position, which is what brought Iran to the table in the first place.

~ Tom Cotton

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

~ Robert Downey

The biggest thing I possess is infinite patience. Once you are patient, things fall in place.

~ Mohammad Azharuddin

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

~ Herodotus

The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.

~ Junot Díaz

I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.

~ Robin Thicke

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

~ David Allan Coe

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

~ Mark Knopfler

Music comes from a place we don't know.

~ Chris Martin

Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us.

~ Robin Gibb

Old age is no place for sissies.

~ Bette Davis

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.

~ Shakira

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

~ Sydney J. Harris

Christians need a time and place to sanctify themselves. It's important to take the time, and early in the morning is a wonderful time to do it.

~ Monica Johnson

People are always looking at their phones and computer. It's the first place people turn in the morning and where everyone's keeping in touch and getting their news.

~ Theophilus London

My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.

~ Dennis C. Blair

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.

~ Wiz Khalifa

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

~ Aleksa Palladino

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

~ Margaret Drabble

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

~ Frank Gehry

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

~ Frank Gehry

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

~ Bernard Tschumi

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

~ Arthur Erickson

I think it's important to approach a house in a way that's reflective of the original environment. Maybe I'm a sentimentalist, but I think that certain geographies call out for certain architecture. I like residences that reflect their place.

~ Kelsey Grammer

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

~ Peter Zumthor

Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.

~ Stefan Sagmeister

Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a place in Israel's history by recognizing the new state 11 minutes after it declared its independence in 1948.

~ Elliott Abrams

I do know that Syria never will recognize Lebanon as an independent country, and the declaration of independence of Lebanon took place in 1943. Syria never - Syria never have recognized Lebanon. They regard Lebanon as part of Syria.

~ Ariel Sharon

There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.

~ Mahmoud Abbas

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

~ Rose Kennedy

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

~ Michael N. Castle

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

~ Chuck Close

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

~ Chuck Close

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Snapchat's the place where people are hearing and learning about culture.

~ Diplo

By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity.

~ David H. Murdock

I like to add props to render the specificities of place - paintings, food, clothing, signs, infrastructure, music, sayings and slang particular to the region and particular to the character. And props shouldn't just sit there; they should get used.

~ Kaui Hart Hemmings

Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.

~ Anna Maria Chavez

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

~ John Burroughs