You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person. – Alec Waugh
Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks. – Robert Louis Stevenson
How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life. – Katherine Mansfield
The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872
New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer. – Henry Miller
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. – Mark Twain, attributed
New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village — the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up! – E.B. White
California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America. – Hinton R. Helper
I… wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain. – James Agate
Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan — that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds. – Le Corbusier
They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California. – Author Unknown
France is France and a grand place for Frenchman. – Harry Truman, letter to Bess Wallace, 1918 May 5th
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York. – William Lyon Phelps
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. – J.B. Priestley
I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter. – Michael Ventre, L.A. Daily News
The tracks of the LTrain are the manly stubble on the ruggedly handsome face of Chicago. – Jason Sweeney
It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance. – Ashley Montagu, about California
This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was. – Quentin Crisp
Disneyland is the only people trap operated by a mouse. – Author Unknown
Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. – Erica Jong
