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Quotes About Shelter

Les Grecs alignèrent sur des rangs parallèles leurs tentes de peaux; les Ibériens disposèrent en cercle leurs pavillons de toile; les Gaulois se firent des baraques de planches; les Libyens des cabanes de pierres sèches, et les Nègres creusèrent dans le sable avec leurs ongles des fosses pour dormir. Beaucoup, ne sachant où se mettre, erraient au milieu des bagages [...]
~ Gustave Flaubert
ESTAMOS BIEN EN EL REFUGIO. LOS 33.
~ Hector Tobar
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
~ H.L. Mencken
She was like defenceless Nature, that withers in the blast because it has shelter neither of God nor of men; human beings do not give one another shelter; and God? We shall see, when in the end we are dead of consumption. Perhaps the Almighty had made a note of all that she had had to suffer. All the same she felt that evening that she was not too old once more to view the future in a dream; in a new dream. To be able to look forward is to live.
~ Halldor Laxness
We started for the door when Agent called out, "Mickey?" I turned. "You, like Ema, have a pure spirit. You have blessed energy centers and true balance. You are a protector. You look out for others. You are their shelter." "Uh
~ Harlan Coben
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
~ Warren Buffett
A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down
~ Gautama Buddha
May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.
~ John Henry Jowett
Friendship is a tree to take shelter from the storm, to find shade from the blazing sun, to climb its bratches to get a better view, and to swing from when we're happy.
~ Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof Look! there - before you, a little way off There is an empty space Between truth and falsehood.
~ Amrita Pritam
Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.
~ Terry McMillan
In a world out of control, the only institutions that grant him an illusion of control, that seem to offer any safety, shelter or warmth, are the "private" institutions: religion, marriage/ family, and, most recently, psychoanalytic therapy. But, as we have seen, the family is neither private nor a refuge, but is directly connected to — is even the cause of — the ills of the larger society which the individual is no longer able to confront.
~ Shulamith Firestone
Kahlan guide me. Kahlan teach me. Kahlan protect me. In your light I thrive. In your mercy I am sheltered. In your wisdom I am humbled. I live only to love you. My life is yours.
~ Terry Goodkind
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
~ Bertrand Russell
Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.
~ Aldous Huxley
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
~ Maya Angelou
Mollycoddle
~ Ben Bova
I have seven rescue dogs.
~ Miranda Lambert
I have realized that when you rescue your pet from a shelter, it is the most amazing feeling in the world how this animal changes your life by giving it a better one.
~ Zak Bagans
Why would you want to do anything else but rescue a pet?
~ Paul Shaffer
My fantasy would be to adopt a bulldog from bulldog rescue and a big old mutt from North Shore Animal Shelter.
~ Beth Ostrosky Stern
You have to let folks know that it's not OK... to live on a sidewalk in front of somebody's house or in front of somebody's business if we have provided a safe, clean, sanitary place for you to go.
~ Kevin Faulconer