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Quotes About Shelter

duty was a cold and barren shelter for a wounded spirit.
~ Jim Butcher
More than anything, she wanted to be someplace warm and safe--but duty was a cold and barren shelter for a wounded spirit.
~ Jim Butcher
people largely envied people who lived a simple life, not that they couldn't do so themselves. It is actually easy when people aren't fond of clutter. You strip the life down to the bare boards underneath, the barest elements of shelter and food
~ Jim Harrison
Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.
~ Jodi Picoult
It shelters and protects us From a dark or sunny sky And like a tree - it's beauty grows As each day passes by.
~ Unknown
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
~ Friedrich von Schiller
He who has no house of his own is everywhere at home.
~ Unknown
I must tell you that even while working I think continually about the plan of setting up a studio in which you and I will be permanent residents, but which both of us want to turn into a shelter and refuge for friends, against the times when they find that the struggle is getting too much for them.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing.
~ Philip Roth
Right. That's the end of the line for you tonight. You're going home, I'm seeing you safe inside, and I'm going home to hide in a closet until this blows over. I suggest you do the same.
~ Rachel Caine
What do people get from all that devil mumbo-jumbo anyway?" "A sense of purpose, I guess." "They could volunteer at an animal shelter instead." "Yes, sir. But then they wouldn't get to have group sex while wearing goat horns or kill people for fun.
~ Dean Koontz
Home is the place where they have to take you in
~ Diana Gabaldon
Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in
~ Diana Gabaldon
tent for a day and a night. The tent shook and heaved, and voices
~ Diana Gabaldon
Home is the place where, when ye have to go there, they have to take ye in'?
~ Diana Gabaldon
I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~ Emily Dickinson
~ Inglath Cooper
May the roof above us never fall in And may we good companions beneath it never fall out.
~ Irish blessing
I've got to learn o take rest and shelter - here, there, anywhere - with as much composure and ease as I accept the open road. It is the basic contest between Being and Doing, focused in my life now as never before.
~ Unknown
O God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.
~ Isaac Watts
In the midst of a thick forest, there was a castle that gave shelter to all travelers overtaken by night on their journey: lords and ladies, royalty and their retinue, humble wayfarers.
~ Italo Calvino
Are you depressed or euphoric? The house, in its wisdom, seems to have taken advantage of your moments of euphoria to prepare itself to shelter you in your moments of depression.
~ Italo Calvino
No, Ludmilla has always looked for places where she could hide." "Who from?" "Oh, from everybody.
~ Italo Calvino
If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
~ Dalai Lama