Takes Place

Famous quotes containing the words takes place, takes and/or place:

“It takes place ... always without permanent form, though ancient and familiar as the sun and moon, and as sure to come again.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.”
—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993)

“Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)