Quotes About Shelter

A house is a kind of box you put a girl in.

It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.

Oh, these cursed phrases, these lies of language, under which people with meat in their bellies and whole shirts on their backs shelter themselves, and evade the responsibility of their brothers and sisters, empty of belly and without whole shirts on their backs.

No matter how breathless the air when he dug his nest by tree or bank, the wind the later blew inevitably found him to leeward, sheltered and snug

No matter how breathless the air when he dug his nest by tree or bank, the wind that later blew inevitably found him to leeward, sheltered and snug

Fear, she thought, had a viscous quality to it, to the extent that you could even feel it in your feet as you were running to the shelter; a burden slowing you down, despite the fact that you were moving as fast as your legs could carry you.

I was an extra on 'New York Undercover.' I played a person at a homeless shelter.

I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children.

I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.

All men and women need a roof over their heads and need to be fed and have proper health care. I don't know that I believed that, or even understood that, in the early days.

When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers.

It is the roof that fights the rain, but the builder who gets all the glory.

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

Housing is stability. Housing is dignity. Housing is absolutely necessary, critical infrastructure.

A stable and affordable home is fundamental to economic security.

Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact, more humane?

For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

Every man needs a place to go to.

protection.

Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy.

Smoke By Théophile Gautier Translated by Norman R. Shapiro Over there, trees are sheltering A hunchedback hut... A slum, no more... Roof askew, walls and wainscoting Falling away... Moss hides the door. Only one shutter, hanging... But Seeping over the windowsill, Like frosted breath, proof that this hut, This slum, is living, breathing still. Corkscrew of smoke... A wisp of blue Escapes the hovel, whose soul it is... Rises to God himself, and who Receives the news and makes it his.

For the children around the world without a home, say a prayer tonight.

If we have a right to healthcare, we should also have a right to the most fundamental of human needs: shelter.