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Quotes About Shelter

But indeed, a home had been built.
~ Donald Miller
Example: You'll get a good roof which results in a worry-free home.
~ Donald Miller
The walls billowed with printed fabric—yellow, green, indigo, purple—and a red hammer-and-sickle flag hung over the batik-draped mattress. It was as if a Russian cosmonaut had crashed in the jungle and fashioned himself a shelter of his nation's flag and whatever native sarongs and textiles he could find.
~ Donna Tartt
Sometimes the surface is the safest place to be.
~ Unknown
If the worst thing in the world happened, would I help protect someone else? Would I let myself be a harbor for someone who needs it?' Then she said, 'I want each of you to say to the other: I will harbor you.' I will harbor you.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
~ Luis Barragan
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.
~ Luke Scott
What are you doing here " "Hiding with you
~ Lynsay Sands
I promise you that for all our life together, I will seek worlds that we might never have encountered in our singularity and our solitude. I will shelter our family. I will share your tears. I will bind my happiness to yours. Our country is about to be born. Let us, too, have the chance to begin again.
~ Madeleine Thien
Officials guarding the frontier between Russia and the German zone took malicious delight in harassing those wishing to pass. Since Marie and her husband were without documents and without shelter in a town completely strange to them where they knew no one, they could not stay. Nor could they return.
~ Unknown
provided a fine home
~ John Grisham
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
~ Luis Barragan
Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.
~ Samuel Mockbee
An expectation is a shelter - it gives you a security feeling. So when someone breaks your expectations he is breaking your shelter, making you insecure, fearful.
~ Osho
Blessed are those who have food to eat, clothes to wear, and a home to live.
~ Unknown
But there is harbor here.
~ Madeline Miller
in a keen frost, I would feel the satisfaction of being shut in from the outer world (like the sea-swallow which builds at the end of a dark tunnel and is kept warm by the surrounding earth), and where, the fire keeping in all night, I would sleep wrapped up, as it were, in a great cloak of snug and savoury air,
~ Marcel Proust
We put terrible pressure on our minds. When we tighten them or harden our views or beliefs, we lose all the softness and flexibility that makes for real shelter, belonging, and protection. Sometimes the best way of caring for your soul is to make flexible again some of the views that harden and crystalize your mind; for these alienate you from your own depth and beauty.
~ John O'Donohue
When you celebrate, you are taking time to recognize, to open your eyes and behold in your life the quiet miracles and gifts that seek no attention; yet each day they nourish, shelter, and animate your life.
~ John O'Donohue
Beans are a roof over your stomach.
~ John Steinbeck
Beans are a roof over your head.
~ John Steinbeck
hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.
~ John Updike
Your faith, whatever it may be, is the greatest shelter of all.
~ John Wooden
Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.
~ Kevin McCloud