Quotes About Sanctuary

A place ain't a place without a bookstore.

A place ain't a place without a bookstore

I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

The outer courtyard was one hundred-fifty feet long by seventy-five feet wide. Wooden poles holding linen curtains over seven feet high sanctioned it off. The Tent of Meeting, or holy place pitched at the back end and was fifteen feet wide, fifteen feet high, and forty-five feet long. It was divided into two sections, the holy place and the most holy place, the inner sanctum.

I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up.

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

Civilisation is a conspiracy. What value would your police be if every criminal could find a sanctuary across the Channel, or your law courts, if no other tribunal recognised their decisions? Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. And it will succeed till the day comes when there is another compact to strip them bare.

For one's native place is the shell of one's soul, and one's church is the kernel of that nut.

I like home. It's warm and there are books.

When you're an actress you've got to keep your body as your sanctuary and your muscles.

When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.

In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google street view. Everyone will be feeling the same way as you, and there's some comfort to be found there.

In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.

Boxing gyms are more than training facilities. They are sanctuaries in bad neighborhoods for troubled kids and shrines to the traditions of the sport. The gym is home. For many, it's the safest place they know.

If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradise on Earth.

Inside the car is truly my own personal space.

In a very cold night, even houses want to have houses of their own to enter inside them and feel warm!

Who now strides on my trail devouring the distance between no matter how I flee, the wasted breath of my haste cast into the wind and these dogs will prevail dragging me down in howling glee for the beasts were born fated, trained in bold vengeance by my own switch and hand and no god will stand in my stead, nor provide me sanctuary, even should I plead for absolution - the hounds of my deeds belong only to me, and they have long hunted and now the hunt ends.

The village was a sanctuary, a time capsule, in which she could conceal herself.

This is my home. You've made it so.

The two cousins, Perdina and Voile, emerged from their sanctuary, dressed in white, their black hair loose like curtains around their pale, narrow faces.

If he could shut himself away from all this, hide his being deep within his mind, he might survive.

A place like this should not exist in such a cruel world. To find it there was to have hope restored.