Small Places Quotes

• Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.

  Eduardo Galeano

  People, World, Small Things

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• Thing big: Universe is a village, a small place! When you think big, all will get smaller!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Village, Think Big

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• Everybody lives in this world, except lovers! They live in an isolated small place called 'You and I' planet!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  World, Lovers, Planets

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• New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  New York, America, Bed

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.145, Booklassic

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• Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as the mongoose. And strangely enough, when we put our human concerns into their proper, small place, we can turn our attention completely to the small things. To a cricket hidden in a crack of lava. To each other.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Attention, Littles, Lava

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• Universe will be a very small place once we solve our speed problem! When that day comes, no man will talk about the greatness of the universe! All greatness comes from our smallness and from our slowness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Greatness, Men, Problem

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• On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting.

  Ben Sherwood

  Beautiful, Moon, Horizon

  Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.18, Bantam

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• The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out.

  Jane Mayer

  People, World, Disappear

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• It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.

  Guy Lafleur

  Thank You, Nice, Careers

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• It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

  Andrew Taylor

  People, Mind Blowing, Band

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• London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

  Jeanette Winterson

  People, Where You Live, Literature

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• I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.

  Julian Lennon

  Done, Kind, Touring

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.

  Paul Washer

  Faith, Sports, Christian

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• At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.

  Keith Coogan

  Mom, Car, House

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• America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.

  Richard Russo

  America, Losing, Nations

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• Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Home, Rights, Progress

  Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights, In Your Hands, to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, New York, March 27, 1958.

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• Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

  Rumi

  Half, Letters, Nests

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• Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspiring, Children, Home

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.190, Columbia University Press

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• There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up and gave way to bigger states. There was much more trade and travel going on than before. To people in the cities the experience of living in a small place where you knew everyone and governed your affairs by consensual democracy had been lost.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Cities, People, Political

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, The Liberator Magazine, Volume 7.2, Issue 22, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Home, Rights, Community

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.190, Columbia University Press

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• I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

  Danny Glover

  Struggle, Trying, Resistance

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• If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen

  Tracy Kidder

  Long, Enough, Happens

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• And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC

  Fred Thompson

  Average, Important, Littles

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• Observe that the body of man is confined to a small place; it covers only two spans of earth. But the spirit and mind of man travel to all countries and regions - even through the limitless space of the heavens - surround all that exists, and make discoveries in the exalted spheres and infinite distances. This is because the spirit has no place; it is placeless; and for the spirit the earth and the heaven are as one since it makes discoveries in both.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Country, Distance, Men

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• Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said.

  Mike Gordon

  Country, Nice, Opportunity

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