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Quotes About Shelter

A harbor even if it is a little harbor is a good thing.... It takes something from the world and has something to give in return.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
Every time someone buys a cat or a dog from a breeder or a pet shop, a cat on the streets or in an animal shelter loses his or her chance at finding a good home.
~ Amy Jackson
Are you afraid of the storm, by the way? I have two perfectly free arms with which to shelter you if you are.
~ Mary Balogh
It is a dreary world out there. It makes one thankful after all to be indoors with a fire burning in the hearth.
~ Mary Balogh
Do you think the wren ever dreams of a better house?
~ Mary Oliver
Here then I retreated, and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.
~ Mary Shelley
He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind, and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind.
~ Mary Shelley
feliz de haber encontrado un refugio ante las inclemencias de la estación y, sobre todo, ante la barbarie del hombre.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
El lugar fue mi retiro, y descansé feliz de haber hallado un refugio, por miserable que fuese, para protegerme de la inclemencia de la estación, y aún más de la barbarie del hombre.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Our strength shall serve as a luminous sun toward which all intelligence may blossom. And the impervious shelter beneath which you will prosper.
~ Matt Forbeck
Animals are so easily overlooked, their interests to easily brushed aside. Whenever we humans enter their world, from our farms to the local animal shelter to the African savanna, we enter as lords of the earth bearing strange powers of terror and mercy alike.
~ Matthew Scully
Who runs a combination cat shelter and hostel ? Keith asked. With the cat shelter being the primary function? Only people who want to kill you with an axe and then put you in the garden and build a shed on you, that's who.
~ Maureen Johnson
In any event he had to sleep in the tube that night
~ Ayn Rand
A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
~ Barack Obama
They say you thatched your roof and now you must not run out of your house if it rains.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
mountains. They stand at every view, like a mother offering a blanket in which to wrap everyday life and shelter it from useless. dreads. In june they are walls of white rhodendron blossom. In autumn the forests set themselves afflame with color. Even winter has its icy charms.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Without shelter, we stand in daylight.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Without shelter, we stand in daylight." "Without shelter, we feel ourselves likely to die.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The need to shelter her family never lifted its weight from her shoulders, but in practical terms she was useful to no one there but the dog and the baby.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
covering for someone coming in from
~ Barry Eisler
Ancorammo la barca al riparo dal vento, entrammo nella baracca, ci cambiammo e preparammo la cena. Il nostro sollievo si espresse in una serie di battute scherzose, a spese l'uno dell'altro. Mangiammo in silenzio, andammo a letto e dormimmo come orsi d'inverno.
~ Barry Lopez
Mellon was right," he said. "Raising tax rates does not raise revenues. In fact, just the opposite happens. The rich just find a way to legally shelter their money and avoid the higher taxes. And who could blame them. But every time we've lowered tax rates, revenues rose. Harding. Coolidge. Hoover. Kennedy. Reagan. Bush. They all got that.
~ Steve Berry
Raising tax rates does not raise revenues. In fact, just the opposite happens. The rich just find a way to legally shelter their money and avoid the higher taxes. And who could blame them. But every time we've lowered tax rates, revenues rose. Harding. Coolidge. Hoover. Kennedy. Reagan. Bush. They all got that.
~ Steve Berry
Poverty, too, needs no explanation. In a world governed by entropy and evolution, it is the default state of humankind. Matter does not arrange itself into shelter or clothing, and living things do everything they can to avoid becoming our food. As Adam Smith pointed out, what needs to be explained is wealth. Yet even today, when few people believe that accidents or diseases have perpetrators, discussions of poverty consist mostly of arguments about whom to blame for it.
~ Steven Pinker