- Nov 07, 2020
Place Quotes
Where you land shapes who you become.
These quotes look at place from more than one angle - the town that never quite feels like "home-home," the city that opens doors for a career, and the place you land after years of searching. Some reflect on where opportunity struck; others just accept a city for what it gave them. Read on for more perspective in our Great Quotes collection.
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- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a new book coming out, so I do movie, book, movie, book, movie, book, every place we go.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my stories take place on the West Coast - not the beach, but smaller inland towns. I feel homesick, and I find inspiration in capturing that.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had never before seen a place where European influence had not contributed to smooth and soften the rough features of uncultivated nature. The prospect of Rangoon, as we approached, was quite disheartening.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe everyone has their own place in B'town.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the duster in my house has to be beautiful; no old piece of cloth will ever be used in its place.
- Fastened
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- Nov 07, 2020
On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020