Places Quotes

We must arise and build the nation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Detroit is big enough to matter in the world and small enough for you to matter in it.

~ Jeanette Pierce

Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Great places, great memories.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you travel, be fully present in the place of voyage.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

But that is what islands are for, they are places where different destinies can meet and intersect in the full isolation of time.

~ Lawrence Durrell

There exist eternity in every moment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Though I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in all manner of ways that'll seem insane to people in the future. And as doors to the next world go, a bog ain't a bad choice. It's not quite water and it's not quite land - it's an in-between place.

~ Ransom Riggs

I have hopein who I am becoming.I have belief in every scar and disgraceful wordI have ever spokenor been toldbecause it is still teaching meand I have hope in who I am becoming.They say it takes 756 days to run to someone you loveand they also say that the only romance worth fighting foris the one with yourselfand I know by nowthat they say a lot of things,people talking everywherewithout saying a word,but if it took me all those years to learn myselfor teach myselfhow to look into the mirrorwithout breaking itI know for a fact that it was a fight worth fighting.I stood up for my own head and so did my heartand we are coming to terms with ourselves.Shaking hands, saying ”let’s make this workfor we have places to goand people to seeand we will need each other”So I have hopein who I am becoming.It’s Julyand I have hope in who I am becoming.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of the heart.

~ Salman Rushdie

This moment is spectacular!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I have more or less constantly been on my way, on the road, always leaving and never arriving, which also means leaving people. I’ve loved and lost and I have regrets and I miss and no matter how many times you leave, start over, achieve success or travel places it’s other people that matter. People, friends, family, lovers, strangers – they will forever stay with you, even if only through memory. I’ve grown to appreciate people to the deepest core and I’m trying to learn how to tell people what I want to tell them when I have the chance, before it’s too late. …

~ Charlotte Eriksson

All the places my mind took me were places I did not want to go.

~ Linwood Barclay

There are places I cannot visit. Places of unbearable sadness, grief, mourning. They say places are made by people. I say places are defined by the memories they conjure—the lunge of a curse, a shared and shattered history, a loved one drowned and lost in the ocean of forgetting.

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

We travel to see beauty of souls in new landscapes.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your imagination will take you to places.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There are places which exist in this world beyond the reach of imagination.

~ Daniel J. Rice

Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places.

~ Tana French

You have many gifts, some will help you to connect the right people while others help you to get to the right places. But it takes your dominant gifts for you to be able to take the lead!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Wherever you travel to, I would love to receive a beautiful postcard.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

But I remember the place with fondness ... not perfect but, all in all, not a bad memory.

~ Diane Meier

There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.

~ Thomas Pynchon

...there’s no magic in places. Only people, and precious little of that; less and less the older you get.

~ Simon Bestwick

Paris was all so... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Children, really quite small children, speaking fluent French!

~ David Nicholls

So now it’s this thing I do.I go away, ever so often, by myself, for myself,to new places with foreign streets I haven’t walked yet,and there I wander, up and down, watching people going places I don’t knowand it always hits me that they’re never alone,always with someone,and I wonder how they would spend a day all on their own in a foreign city with nothing to do and no one to see,and I wonder if they’d be happy.Just simply being free,like I am trying to be.Happy.Just simply being me.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

To feel is to go to the places you were.

~ Will Advise

Everywhere, I have travel to, I felt loved.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Human migration is an important part of our ancestral story. The places we live shape us, the places we leave behind forges our history, and the places we might travel to becomes our mysterious future.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Le Marais?’‘It’s a little district in the centre of Paris. It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like Brigitte Bardot. It’s the only place to stay.

~ Jojo Moyes

We saw beautiful landscapes on the journey.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We travel to see beautiful places and to meet great souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love people, not places. Places don't miss you when you're gone.

~ Marty Rubin

The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.

~ Daniel Pinchbeck

History is rich knowledge. In your travel, learn brief history of the place visited.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Science rock: The pursuit of science, lead us to the beautiful places of the world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as we look on them.

~ Anthony Liccione

Whatever. There is a natural order to things, a hierarchy. And no less so in man. For man may be the master of nature, but he is also part of it. Every living thing, from the greatest of all men to the lowliest earthworm has its place. It is very important that the groundhog not think he is tiger, nor a sparrow believe he is a hawk. A frog would not make a very good shark, would it? One must know their place in the world ~ Baroness von Berge, Greta Greaves of Austria

~ Austin Scott Collins