Small Places Quotes:

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

- Eduardo Galeano

topic: People, World, Changing The World, Small Places

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

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

topic: New York, America, Bed, Small Places

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

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: World, Lovers, Planets, Small Places

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

topic: Attention, Littles, Lava, Mongoose, Small Places

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

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

topic: Beautiful, Moon, Saws, Full Moon, Small Places

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

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Thinking, Village, Think Big, Small Places

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

topic: Greatness, Men, Problem, Smallness, Small Places

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

topic: People, World, Disappear, Small Places

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

topic: People, Mind Blowing, Band, Blowing It, Small Places

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

topic: People, Where You Live, London, Small Places

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

- Julian Lennon

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

topic: Done, Kind, Touring, Small Places

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

topic: Faith, Sports, Christian, Precious Moments, Small Places

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

topic: Mom, Car, House, Clean House, Small Places

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

- Jesse Jackson

source: "The preacher comes to town" by Laura Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

topic: Positive, Jesus, Modesty, Bethlehem, Small Places

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Home, Rights, Community, Individual Rights, Equal Opportunity

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

topic: Half, Letters, Nests, Small Places

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

topic: Country, Nice, Opportunity, Mind Playing, Small Places

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

- V. S. Naipaul

topic: World, Grew Up, Bigger, Small Places

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

- Richard Russo

topic: America, Losing, Small Places

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

topic: Religion, Enchantment, Turns, Small Places

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

topic: Thank You, Nice, Careers, Small Places

It's such a small place, not much to do but talk and listen. The men are jealous and the women all in competition.

- Drake

source: Song: Shot for Me, Album: Take Care, 2011

topic: Humble, Home, Jealous, Small Places

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

- Danny Glover

topic: Struggle, Trying, Resistance, Small Places

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

- Tracy Kidder

topic: Long, Enough, Small Places

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

topic: Average, Important, Taiwan, Small Places

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

topic: Country, Distance, Men, Exalted, Small Places

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

- Louise Brown

topic: Meaningful, People, Stories, Most Meaningful, Small Places

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

topic: Cities, People, Political, South Asia, Cracking Up

Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.

- Ryan Giggs

source: "Ryan Giggs: Nice Guy Finishes First" By Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.

topic: Small Places

I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary.

- Paul McCartney

topic: Moving, Play, Broken, Small Places