Best Small Places Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

Kind Done Bigs Known Mankind 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.”

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

People World Changing The World Small Things Small Places

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“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.”

Firsts Enough House Car Television Mom Shots Towns My Mom Agents Guests Cleaning Clean House Small Places

Author:Keith Coogan

“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.”

America New York Bed Wake Up Small Places

Book:My Man Jeeves

Source: My Man Jeeves

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

World This World Planets Lovers Isolated Small Places

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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.”

Humans Littles Enough Bigs Young Turns Attention Concern Species Cracks Cricket Small Things Lava Small Places Mongoose

Author:Sallie Tisdale

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

Thinking Bigs Universe Village Think Big Small Places

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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!”

Men Problem Universe Greatness Solve Speed Smallness Slowness Small Places

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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.”

People Knows World Disappear Colleagues Small Places

Author:Jane Mayer

“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.”

People Play Black Watches Player Grew Dad Paper Grew Up My Dad Papers Small Places

Author:Ryan Giggs

“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.”

Play Would Be Wanted Moving Form Broken Broken Up Small Places

Author:Paul McCartney

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

Happens Jesus Born Positive Things Happen Great Things Modesty Bethlehem Small Places

Author:Jesse Jackson

“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.”

People Way States Political Lost Cities Democracy Bigger Trade South Affair Uncertainty Asia Great Political South Asia Small Places Cracking Up

Author:Pankaj Mishra

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

World Young Left Grew Grew Up Bigger Small Places

Author:V. S. Naipaul

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

America Nations Loses Losing Small Places

Author:Richard Russo

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

Religion Turns Enchantment Small Places

Book:Cross Creek

Source: Cross Creek

“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.”

World Beautiful Saws Moon Horizon Fleeting Reminders Places In The World Full Moon Small Places

Book:Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel

Source: Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel

“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.”

Way Kind Causes Careers Nice Fans Thank You Saying Thank You Good Causes Small Places

Author:Guy Lafleur

“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.”

Source: Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Source: Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Trying I Can Struggle Resistance Small Places

Author:Danny Glover

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

Ifs Long Enough Happens Bounds Small Places

Author:Tracy Kidder

“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”

Littles Important Would Be Difficult Average Taiwan Small Places

Author:Fred Thompson

“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.”

Men Mind Two Country Body Earth Spirit Heaven Space Discovery Infinite Distance Regions Surround Spheres Limitless Confined Exalted Small Places

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

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

People Made Stories Found Meaningful Unimportant Most Meaningful Small Places

Author:Louise Brown

“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.”

Ifs Want Mind Said Different Country Play Opportunity Goal Nice Journey Huge Fishes Yesterday Stadiums Different Countries Small Places Mind Playing

Author:Mike Gordon

“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.”

Want Half Fit Letters Bread Nests Small Places

Author:Rumi

“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.”

“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.”

People Mind Has Beens Band Standing Generous Tickets Mind Blowing Standing Alone Blowing It Small Places

Author:Andrew Taylor

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

People Knows Literature London Where You Live Small Places

Author:Jeanette Winterson

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