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Quotes About Shelter

All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass.
~ Luis Barragan
Quand la pluie le traverse, c'est moi qui dois le réparer. Cela signifie que c'est mon toit, et que je suis responsable de ce qui se passe au-dessous.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
This, then, is the fate of your sons, Oh Rome, oh celebrated power! Singer of love, singer of the gods, Tell me, what is glory? A hollow rumbling from the grave, a praising voice, A sound speeding from generation to generation? Or under the shade of a smoky shelter The tale of a wild gypsy?
~ Alexander Pushkin
So they live in darkness but they're safe, I said, and wondered if to be this safe was to always live in darkness...
~ Dorothy Gilman
Every child should have a safe place in their life.
~ Joe Manchin
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
~ Horace Greeley
Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When home is a safe house, I know I feel safe and secure when I'm at home
~ Jill Savage
Leopards, that is ordinary forest leopards, do not like rain and invariably seek shelter, but the man eater was not an ordinary leopard, and there was no knowing what his likes or dislikes were, or what he might or might not do.
~ Jim Corbett
An assassin!' exclaimed one of the Englishmen; 'an assassin and at liberty!' An Italian gentleman, who was of the party, smiled at the astonishment of his friend. 'He has sought sanctuary here,' replied the friar; 'within these walls he may not be hurt.' 'Do your altars, then, protect the murderer?' said the Englishman. 'He could find shelter no where else,' answered the friar meekly.
~ Ann Radcliffe
Vlad looked around. "Are we providing shelter, or are the humans actually buying books?
~ Anne Bishop
There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.
~ Anne Tyler
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
My mother never, ever told me about evilness. She only saw the beautiful things... she wanted to protect me from it.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
The feeling of own roof gives a sense of protection to the people.
~ Shehbaz Sharif
The last thing our children need is less protection.
~ Lisa Madigan
The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
~ Bruce Springsteen
My dreams are a stupid shelter, like an umbrella against lightning.
~ Fernando Pessoa
We are all of us the slaves of external circumstance: even at a table in some backstreet café, a sunny day can open up before us visions of wide fields; a shadow over the countryside can cause us to shrink inside ourselves, seeking uneasy shelter in the doorless house that is our self; and, even in the midst of daytime things, the arrival of darkness can open out, like a slowly spreading fan, a deep awareness of our need for rest.
~ Fernando Pessoa
quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
~ Fidel Castro
he was safe in here from all the threat of life...
~ Fitzgerald
If you want to get a dog, please adopt. I know a lot of people want these fancy breeds, but I think it's better to adopt, because there are so many amazing dogs.
~ Skai Jackson
Everyone wants their children to go to school, to have a job, a roof over their head, feed their children.
~ Charley Boorman
If shelter is a human right, why not create a national housing service to provide homes for everyone who doesn't have one?
~ Dawn Foster