#Place Quotes

“The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.”

“What care though rival cities soarAlong the stormy coast,Penn's town, New York, Baltimore,If Boston knew the most!”

“A spot whereon the founders lived and diedSeemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees,Or gardens rich in memory glorifiedMarriages, alliances, and families,And every bride's ambition satisfied.”

“If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.”

“One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.”

“There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die.”

“California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.”

“Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.”

“First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.”

“Philadelphia, wonderful town, spent a week there one night”

“In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people of a nearby city or town.”

“Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.”

“All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia”

“If the race is good, so is the place.”

“Any place that we love becomes our world.”

“Any place you love is the world to you.”

“There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.”

“If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.”

“I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.”

“How can you live in the Northeast?”

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

“But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."”

“That computer was made in Alabama”

“I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.”

“I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.”

“Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the proverbial moderation of the inhabitants of Concord, as exhibited in the Revolution, and on later occasions.”

“I have hardly begun to live on Staten Island yet; but, like the man who, when forbidden to tread on English ground, carried Scottish ground in his boots, I carry Concord ground in my boots and in my hat,--and am I not made of Concord dust? I cannot realize that it is the roar of the sea I hear now, and not the wind in Walden woods. I find more of Concord, after all, in the prospect of the sea, beyond Sandy Hook, than in the fields and woods.”

“There is no place more delightful than home.”

“Our country is wherever we are well off.[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]”

“The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.”

“As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have my own window to shoot from.”

“What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.”

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”

“When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.”

“The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding.”

“I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.”

“Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.”

“I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.”

“Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.”

“Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.”

“My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.”

“The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in civilized history until the fame of its grassy meadows and fish attracted settlers out of England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of CONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have commenced in a spirit of peace and harmony. It will be Grass-ground River as long as grass grows and water runs here; it will be Concord River only while men lead peacable lives on its banks.”

“A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.”

“There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.”

“The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them”

“Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live.”

“I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold.”

“I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.”