Quotes About Shelter

They had been hiding out, waiting, given shelter by my intuitive self, all these years.

They had been hiding out, waiting, given shelter by my intuitive self, all these years. For I am that special freak, the man with the child inside who remembers all.

Will listened, cold but warming, glad to be in with a roof above, floor below, wall and door between too much exposure, too much freedom, too much night.

A beautiful and binding morning The world outside begins to breathe See clouds arriving without warning I need you here to shelter me. If I could make these moments endless If I could stop the winds of change If we just keep our eyes wide open Then everything would stay the same And I know that only time will tell me how We'll carry on without each other So keep me awake for every moment Give us more time to be this way We can't stay like this forever But I can have you next to me today

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

We were thirty-five people in one house. The women would sleep in one room and the men in another. When there was shelling, we'd be about three hundred people in the underground shelter.

I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.

Et puis s'accuser tous azimuts, on se met à l'abri de bien des exigences. (p.116)

I found shelter from a thin rain in the laundrette opposite, the hot air thick with Persil.

It was a though we'd been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family.

He wanted to keep the moment frozen, to shelter it here, to lock time and space in this room, so it could never escape into the rest of the universe with this terrible knowledge, this unrelenting truth. - Return Of The Jedi

But then, what is madness, but a refuge, a retreating from the world?

Wrong Pauley made sure no one was around before he started down the alleyway toward his burrow. His nightly nesting spot didn't qualify as a Hobbit hole, or even a rabbit hole. It was a hollow in the midst of a strip of ice plant above a cinderblock

I think pets are a good thing, especially if you get them out of a shelter.

Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.

Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

If you happen to be born into an Indian family, an Indian family from the Caribbean, migratory, never certain of the terrain, that's how life falls down around you. It's close and thick and sheltering, its ugly and violent secrets locked inside the family walls. The outside encroaches, but the ramparts are strong, and once you leave it you have no shelter and no ready skills for finding a different one. I found that out after years of trying.

In the words of historian Robert Olwell, "fugitive slaves were sheltered under the guise that they constituted contraband enemy property, rather than recognized as liberated persons."90 Royal officers wanted slaves for the labor they might perform—and to deprive the rebels of that labor.

For many impoverished people, living under a tarp or in a cardboard box is a way of life.

You can see my guns at my apartment. The safe room is a special place... It's good to have a safe room in your house. It's storm-proof; we've got food, store supplies, all kinds of stuff.

No business is non-essential to those who rely on its paycheck for food, for supplies and for shelter.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.