#place

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#air conditioning #been #conditioning #god #over

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#go #goat #i #least #likely

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#algeria #am #born #came #city

I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#children #i #i think #place #since

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#architecture #art #civilization #first #first time

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#being #box #business #consistent #film

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#age #begin #embrace #growth #improve

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas. ↗

— Alan Alda

#clear #freshness #hang #ideas #life

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island. ↗

— Jason Alexander

#better #budget #find #had #island

The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#comes #entirety #fire #glows #life