A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. – Joan Didion
So she set out from the place where she was with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah. – The Bible Ruth 1:7
The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality. – Brandon Stanton
Seven is a lucky number, so I plan to do a lot of lucky things with my seventh place title. – Anwar Robinson
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body – waiflike, angular – that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone. – Caroline Knapp
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. – Chief Seattle
I always loved clothes, just not clothes that were appropriate to the place I grew up in. – Colleen Atwood
Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world – they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya. – Akhmad Kadyrov
Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over. – Amos Lee
There’s a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There’s a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music’s sake. – Bill Conti
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana. – Beth Henley
Ensuring ports are dredged is essential to securing America’s place in global trade. – Ander Crenshaw
I’m actually embarrassed to tell people I’m Russian these days, because it’s become such an awful place. – Anton Yelchin
Where I grew up was a place called Salford, which was the industrial heartland of Manchester. And where I lived in Salford, I could walk to the center of Manchester within about 20 minutes. So I lived really close to the center. – Bernard Sumner
I worked in this bar called the Raincheck Room in the ’60s; it used to be over on Santa Monica Boulevard, and, y’know, it was a pretty hip place. Lots of actors hung out there. – Alex Rocco
L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me. – Caroline Leavitt