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Quotes About Shelter

The maples had sheltered the west side of our house for over a hundred years, and left, as fallen trees do, a void so absolute you couldn't possibly have imagined it beforehand.
~ Alison Bechdel
HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Vengeance can feel fine, but it's a luxury. It doesn't fill your belly, or keep the rain off.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Folk want bread," he said. "Then safety. Then shelter. Freedom's far down the list, and principles far behind that.
~ Joe Abercrombie
?oveku koji umire od gladi lep je hleb. Besku?niku je lep krov. Pijanici je lepo vino. Samo oni kojima ništa ne nedostaje trebaju lepotu tražiti u komadu kamena. Cosca
~ Joe Abercrombie
he knew that the horror of the Holocaust cried out for redress, and that only a Jewish homeland could provide safe harbor for Jews seeking shelter and safety around the world. How long would Harry Truman agonize over this fateful decision?
~ Joe Scarborough
We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.
~ Shimon Peres
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical illness, including HIV/AIDS
~ Jewel
There is no safer feeling than the comfort of sheltering from life's storms in the harbor of friendship.
~ Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
from the middle-middle classes, whose highest desire seemed shelter – continuous shelter – not a lair in the darkness to be reached against fear, but shelter everywhere and always, until the existence of earth and sky is forgotten, shelter from poverty and disease and violence and impoliteness; and consequently from joy; God slipped this retribution in.
~ E.M. Forster
She was never a tower of strength to me, but at least she was always a lodge in my garden of cucumbers.
~ Edmund Gosse
He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot or starve,kill or be killed,shelter or suffer,procreate or count for nothing-has clarified his thinking,purged him of politics and its constant search for compromise.
~ Edmund Morris
You would not believe how many words there are for 'home' and what savage music there can be wrung from it.
~ Edna O'Brien
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadows of a great rock in a weary land.
~ Anonymous
As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers.
~ Anonymous
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men!
~ Anonymous
Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents.
~ Anonymous
improvisamos un techo para protegernos de los murciélagos que andan por ahí hablando con voz de gente
~ António Lobo Antunes
Sextus was safely inside the harbor of Messana;
~ Anthony Everitt
Save the Children is an awesome charity that has helped more than 125 million children around the world, providing everything from school books to food to blankets and shelter.
~ PewDiePie
It is about time county councils got back into the business of providing houses.
~ Enda Kenny
We need housing for people who are exiting homelessness, and need to make sure we're providing housing at multiple levels of care so people can get the services they need to permanently exit homelessness and make their home in San Francisco.
~ London Breed
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
~ Bernard Tschumi