Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
I'm one who needs to be in the space [for] a sense of place and order. It's crucial. — Sue Tompkins Copy Share Image
When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me. — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
All great hotels should have stellar personalized service, a unique design that gives guests a sense of place, an excellent on-site restaurant,… — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
“I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
“If Caribbean writers have one single unifying theme, it is a strong sense of place, and of home. There is also -… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Paradise” is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will… — Andrew Rayner Copy Share Image
“I recall when this place was a good 'n honest community hall with a great sense of place and pride but now… — Jonathan Dunne Copy Share Image
Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“At least the tree knows where it stands. It had a sense of place. It's fixed. Attached. And I am lost. I… — Annabel Pitcher Copy Share Image
“...he raised a hand to touch my face, a touch of promise, warm and sure, and as I struggled to smile back… — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
It had come to me not in a sudden epiphany but with a gradual sureness, a sense of meaning like a sense… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Notice Paul’s advance in the grace of humility. Early in his ministry, he acknowledged: “I am the least of the apostles and… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“I don't know why--there are no brick gables,' said Mrs. Prest, 'but this corner has seemed to me before more Dutch than… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“..and how sometimes when she can’t get her clients talking about what happened over there she’ll get a map of the country,… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“At Bramasole, the first secret spot that draws me outside is a stump and board bench on a high terrace overlooking the… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place,"… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
“I envy the table its scars, the scorch marks caused by the hot bread tins. I envy its calm sense of time,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“In the 1980s, worried professionals began to come together to compare notes and create visions of new ways of living that would… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“My hand slid into his. The warmth of his hand surrounded mine and made me wish Carson Boulevard was miles more than… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
“He is more rooted to the idea of home. He created this home...and established routines like watching the BBC and cooking barbecues… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
I can't stand it when restaurants don't have a sense of place in a city. When I'm in London, I want to… — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
I think that's why Sturgill and I worked so well together. We came from similar backgrounds as far as a sense of… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
“It must have been marvelous when the century was young and things impressed themselves in such blatant vivid brilliance that an approaching… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
“But the essence of a place, the part of it that picks you up and puts you down somewhere else, cannot be… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“The Morning After Coffee Bar was different from the mass-produced coffee bars that had mushroomed on every street almost everywhere, a development… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“That’s different. The French know that the English are superior to them and they’re appropriate about it. The Eastern Europeans on the… — Colin Browne Copy Share Image
“The [commercial] strip is marketed with the come-on of comfort (the Comfort Inn) and with the promise of a home on the… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that… — Jonathan Hale Copy Share Image
[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the… — Greg Peterson Copy Share Image
There are so many people who have a training in art history; and if you've spent time looking at old art, you… — Laura Belem Copy Share Image