When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

humor time cars place parking Solomon

About Bob Edwards

Portrait of Bob Edwards

Robert Alan Edwards (May 16, 1947 – February 10, 2024) was an American broadcast journalist who was a Peabody Award-winning member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. He hosted both of National Public Radio's flagship news programs, the afternoon All Things Considered, and Morning Edition, where he was the...

More quotations from Bob Edwards

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

ignorance learning

More quotations tagged with “place”

The middle of the road is where the white line is-and that's the worst place to drive.

—Robert Frost

driving place moderation

A place for everything, everything in its place.

—Benjamin Franklin

I'd finally found a place—and maybe even some people—worth holding on to.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

—Blaise Pascal

importance nature place

To explain why we become attached to our birthplaces, we pretend that we are trees and speak of "roots." Look under your feet. You will not find gnarled growths sprouting through the soles. Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places.

—Salman Rushdie

myth home conservative place roots

History

27 May 2014 Added