Quotes About Shelter

Housing without people, and people without housing.

Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.

The wind was against them now, and Piglet's ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his way along, and it seemed hours before he got them into the shelter of the Hundred Acre Wood and they stood up straight again, to listen, a little nervously, to the roaring of the gale among the treetops. 'Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought.

The electric light in the classroom, contrasting with the immensity of the darkness outside, gave us an atavistic sentiment of intimacy, of shelter, such as primitive man must have experienced in his cave. The world became small, and it was easy to be alive. I recall that it was during one of those evenings that I had my first hallucination, about which there isn't a lot to say and nor can I find an explanation for.

I wondered what exactly the war had accomplished. Men had fought great battles: the Battle of the Bulge, the battle for Monte Casino, the battle for the beaches, for God and country, for God and freedom, for God and a pure race. They had left hundreds of cities in ruins and their people without shelter or food.

Oh s'il te plaît cache-moi dans ton abri antiplanétaire pour que la vie qui a la rage ne me retrouve jamais, redonne-moi mon rire aveugle et la distance, surtout, la distance jadis si grande entre la mort et moi...

Paul Bowles said, "The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above."   Joseph

Principles are easy to have when you have a place to live and regular meals.

Housing is a key factor in any society that can't be ignored, if the leader truly cares about the health and mental wellbeing of the population.

Nothing is so beautiful like owning a house.

people were affirming the divinity of Jesus—which I also fully and gladly affirm—and then using it as a shelter behind which to hide from the radical story the gospels were telling about what this embodied God was actually up to.

And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer, she said, laughing, for the small dragons that live under the streets.

her mother. "It's too windy." The umbrella

What does it mean to be safe in the world?

Shelter me from the powder and the finger Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger Think of me as one you'd never figured Would fade away so young With so much left undone Remember me to my love, I know I'll miss her.

A man is not a man until he has a house of his own.

With all the homeless folk in SF, the fact that these woods remain unmolested is sort of a mystery.

Regarding the bill, Nicholas Alahverdian said "The policy of this bill is safety of children at every cost. The aim of this bill is adequate education and housing for children in the care of the state. People may ask at what cost. We say at any cost, for the life of a child in a system with a $600M budget deserves at the very least, food, schooling, and stable shelter, and if possible, a family life. We must never give up, and I certainly won't.

He was starting to think that consciousness wasn't some lighthouse of self-knowing but merely a little cave where you made up stories about yourself, whatever it took to hide the shit and the slime, the utter mollusk you were in your deepest nature. He wondered what was down there, under the shit, what kind of bedrock he might strike. Take

Nos vies sont les mêmes. Nos vies se débattent, crient dans la nuit, hurlent et tremblent de peur. Infiniment nous cherchons un abri. Un lieu où le vent siffle moins fort. Un endroit où aller. Et cet abri est un visage, et ce visage nous suffit.

Man was, and is, too shallow and cowardly to endure the fact of the mortality of everything living. He wraps it up in the rose-coloured optimism of Progress (which no one actually believes in), he masks it with literature, he crawls behind the shelter of ideals so as not to see anything. But

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

A little house—a house of my own—Out of the wind's and the rain's way.

empty, what was to stop vagrants, or even