Quotes about Places
Just strengthening that theme that America is a place of opportunity and hoping to inspire people to fulfill those opportunities, and to want more, and to want better, and to see the places we can go. So many people identify with me because of the place that I come from.
- Jay-Z
There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.
- Ernest Hemingway
Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.
- Martin Luther
What I have noticed is that no two places in Calcutta are alike. I like the bylanes and the old places. This city has a lot of character.
- Barun Sobti
There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments—and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Lord, I'm amazed that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem. I'm grateful that you use unknown places and people for your big plans.
- Rick Warren
Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come only from our Heavenly Father.
- Thomas Monson
All creatures, with two exceptions that we know of, have willingly taken the places appointed to them. The Bible speaks of angels who rebelled and therefore were cast down out of heaven, and of the fall of man.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Are you seeking Jesus? Where have you been looking for Him? As you begin your day, think through the various places you will be and the people you will be with; and envision Jesus standing next to you in each of those places.
- Richard Wurmbrand
And lonely as it is that loneliness Will be more lonely ere it will be less-- A blanker whiteness of benighted snow With no expression, nothing to express. They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars--on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.
- Robert Frost
Love is like wildflowers; it's often found in the most unlikely places.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we go to the places where we are called by God—sometimes gladly, sometimes reluctantly, always in anxiety—we are drawn into the newness of God's future.
- Walter Brueggemann