Quotes about Place
We are all time travelers, journeying together into the future. But let us work together to make that future a place we want to visit.
— Stephen Hawking
Why, he wondered, swerving the car to avoid a dead pye-dog, do I love this place so much? Is it because here human nature hasn't had time to disguise itself? Nobody here could ever talk about a heaven on earth. Heaven remained rigidly in its proper place on the other side of death, and on this side flourished the injustices, the cruelties, the meanness that elsewhere people so cleverly hushed up.
— Graham Greene
The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isn't interpreted, then it can't be put into action. So if we are serious about following God, then we have to interpret the Bible. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says. We must first make decisions about what it means at this time, in this place, for these people.
— Rob Bell
Man's Place in Nature.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
It is not in space but in time, he writes, that we find God's likeness. In the Bible, no thing or place is holy by itself; not even the Promised Land is called holy.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
There's no better place to do a longform project than HBO. I loved the creative teams I got a chance to work with.
— Todd Haynes
The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Only times and places, only names and ghosts.
— Aldous Huxley
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater.
— John Guare
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
— Alice Walker
From a leadership perspective the biblical role of staff members is to "equip the saints." But there should be a place where staff can practice "being a saint".
— Ed Stetzer
I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of 'art'.
— Edith Schaeffer