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Quotes About Refuge

Home is a sanctuary for me and the place where I can relax. Everyone should have the right to a safe and secure home.
~ Corinne Bailey Rae
Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.
~ Bette Davis
Baseball was my refuge. When I came on the field, I did my job, and did the best I could and focused on that. Then I went home and I was miserable. That was pretty much my routine every day.?
~ Joey Votto
In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away
~ T. S. Eliot
We pray for the many brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their native lands, who seek a home where they can live without fear: that they might always be respected in their dignity.
~ Pope Francis
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.
~ George Bernard Shaw
For a man's home is his castle.
~ Sir Edward Coke
Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?
~ Pope John Paul II
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
~ Edward Abbey
I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me.
~ Ibn Ata Allah
The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.
~ Anthony Liccione
My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.
~ Marquis de Lafayette
A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought, , not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland's most popular outdoor sports, gossip is the most popular indoor sport.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.
~ John Paul Stevens
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.
~ Oscar Wilde
Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard.
~ Peg Kehret, Runaway Twin
Every Place where we feel safety is a Treasure. Jan Jansen
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
to be somewhere safe with somebody good.
~ Jan Karon
If I could have my life over again, I would devote it not to art or literature, but to language. Life itself may hit one hard, but always, always one can take sanctuary in language. Language is as much an art and as sure a refuge as paint¬ ing or music or literature. It reflects and interprets and makes bearable life; only it is a wider, because more subconscious, life.
~ Jane Ellen Harrison
Home is supposed to be a place of security, the last resort of refuge."
~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Last, this great "mountain of friendship" will also become for you a place of refuge.
~ Dutch Sheets
Awww, 'tis the refuge we take when the unreality of the world weighs too heavy on our tiny heads.
~ Edward Albee
They had never met, but she had come to understand what had driven Victor's wife to seek refuge in a full set of Snoopy mugs.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.
~ Albert Schweitzer