Place Quotes

Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.

You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

You can talk about movies all you want, but I have this porcelain fetish. I've had it since I was a kid, because there were so many kids in my family, the only place I had any solace was in the bathroom.

I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

I needed to move, but I haven't had the time to find a place to go.

I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

There should be a place and the space for all pop.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.

My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences.

For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.

Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.

In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.

I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.

Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

Nowadays people seem to switch schools, either because they have to, and certain schools only serve certain grades, or because they move to a different place or have some particular interest, but I was in the same school for 13 years.

In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.

I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning," she said. "How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.