Places

Places or place is a term that has a variety of meanings in a dictionary sense, but which is principally used in a geographic sense as a noun to denote location, though in a sense of a location identified with that which is located there.

Sourced

• Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.
  • Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass.

• I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.
  • Cesare Pavese, The devil in the hills

• A place for everything, and everything in its place.
  • Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), Thrift, Ch. 5.

Unsourced

• Each moment is a place you've never been.
  • Mark Strand

• When you get there, there isn't any there there.
  • Gertrude Stein

• Wherever you are is the entry point.
  • Kabir

See also

For particular geographic places, i.e. countries or cities, see Category:Places.