- Hate
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- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like California a lot. There's a lot of space, but it's actually the most populated place in the nation.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew very early what I wanted to do, and I considered myself lucky to know that's what I wanted, even in a place like Saint Lucia where there was no publishing house and no theatre.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father worked for Bell Labs. Hence, I knew very much about the place. I knew it because also he was involved with telephony.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first phase of C was - really, it was two phases in short succession of, first, some language changes from B, really adding the type structure without too much change in the syntax, and doing the compiler. The second phase was slower; it all took place within a very few years, but it was a bit slower, so it seemed.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
- Nov 07, 2020
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020