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Quotes About Shelter

As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there.
~ Henry Cisneros
Attachment theory teaches us that our loved one is our shelter in life. When that person is emotionally unavailable or unresponsive, we face being out in the cold, alone and helpless. We are assailed by emotions—anger, sadness, hurt, and above all, fear. This is not so surprising when we remember that fear is our built-in alarm system; it turns on when our survival is threatened.
~ Sue Johnson
And that refuge was the most reliable place of all—between the pages of a book.
~ Susan Wiggs
what storm-benighted traveller, when fierce winds and rains are lashing around his lodging, can withstand the cheering influences of a glorious log-fire?
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness.
~ Josh Duhamel
In general, more affordable housing correlates with lower income inequality.
~ Annie Lowrey
My approach to housing is to treat it as an essential part of our communities, just like roads, waterlines or any other piece of infrastructure.
~ Kevin Faulconer
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
~ Evelyn Waugh
animal sanctuary?
~ Faye Kellerman
por onde ella logo com medo fugia para a concava funda da casa do fumo,
~ Fernão Mendes Pinto
Rejection is protection.
~ Florence Scovell Shinn
At Bramasole, the first secret spot that draws me outside is a stump and board bench on a high terrace overlooking the lake and valley. Before I sit down, I must bang the board against a tree to knock off all the ants. Then I'm happy. With a stunted oak tree for shelter and a never-ending view, I am hidden. No one knows where I am. The nine-year-old's thrill of the hideout under the hydrangea comes back: My mother is calling me and I am not answering.
~ Frances Mayes
The Bible's picture of a godly leader also describes the godly home: "A shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock" (Isaiah 32:2). May that be true of your home.
~ Billy Graham
When we are compelled by love, when we embrace the life of the Beatitudes, we are truly blessed. Truly we are filled with inexpressible joy knowing we dwell in the shelter of the Most High God. We rest in the shadow of the Almighty. He is our refuge and our fortress; we put our trust in Him. He covers us with His wings of love, and we find safety in Him.
~ Heidi Baker
I vaguely remember we had an air-raid shelter in our yard. We lived in a semi-detached house with a small garden in the suburbs of Salford, a couple of miles from the docks.
~ Robert Powell
The demand for adequate social housing provision is something that transcends race, religion and settled status.
~ Ash Sarkar
When we talk about a city's cost of living, we don't mean food, transportation, or clothing, which cost about the same everywhere. We mean housing.
~ Glenn Kelman
Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.
~ Anne-Marie Slaughter
Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.
~ William Shakespeare
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.The Brothers KaramazovMitya (Dmitri) to Aloysha who visits him in prison, Book XI - Ivan, Chapter 4 - A Hymn and a Secret.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He had lived alone most of his life. He was used to places that were empty. He knew the real shelter of a home was inside yourself.
~ Michael Connelly
worshippers of the market are a bit more realistic than worshippers of nature: they long ago stopped relying on the free market to supply us with such necessities as food and shelter. Though they don't like to talk about it much, they accept the need for society to "garden" the market.)
~ Michael Pollan
If I wasn't doing candy, I'd want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Otherwise, the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson were so much a part of my childhood, and Janet and I have become friends. So my second dream job would be backup singer for Janet Jackson!
~ Dylan Lauren
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.
~ Billy Joel