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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
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd waste a holiday trying to set a story in this new place I'd visit, whereas I would never write a story about Indianapolis.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other place. I'm attached by invisible strings.
- Nov 07, 2020
Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.
- Catch
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Dutch Harbor, Alaska - a place so tiny, we got only one channel on TV. The high school and middle school had 50 kids total!
- Meal
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- Nov 07, 2020