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Quotes About Shelter

The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.
~ Rebecca Solnit
LAST HAVEN TAVERN.
~ Richard A. Knaak
Rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound.
~ Richard Adams
A tree is a wondrous thing that shelters, feeds, and protects all living things. It even offers shade to the axmen who destroy it.
~ Richard Powers
capes and hats and skirts. Thank you for the cradles. The beds. The diapers. Canoes. Paddles, harpoons, and nets. Poles, logs, posts. The rot-proof shakes and shingles. The kindling that will always light." Each new item is release and relief. Finding no good reason to quit now, she lets the gratitude spill out. "Thank you for the tools. The chests. The decking. The clothes closets. The paneling
~ Richard Powers
the Buddha's words: A tree is a wondrous thing that shelters, feeds, and protects all living things. It even offers shade to the axmen who destroy it.
~ Richard Powers
I aged rapidly during those months, as one must with such loss of one's self, with such proximity to death, and such distance from shelter.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
La classe ouvrière est beaucoup plus nombreuse que la classe dirigeante, et plus forte. Ces gens là dépendent entièrement de nous. C'est nous qui produisons leur nourriture, qui construisons leurs maisons, qui fabriquons leurs vêtements. Sans nous, ils sont morts. Ils ne peuvent pas se permettre n'importe quoi, sauf si nous les laissons faire. N'oublie jamais ça.
~ Ken Follett
That you ever existed is a thought that gives me shelter; that men could make you up is a thought that gives me hope; and the thought that you might exist even now would give me safety and a gladness that I could not contain.
~ William Peter Blatty
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
~ William S. Burroughs
Sleep shall neither night nor dayHang upon his pent-house lid.
~ William Shakespeare
He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.
~ William Shakespeare
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
~ William Wordsworth
After all, is there any person so unhappy, so abandoned, that he doesn't have a little den into which he can withdraw and hide away from everyone? Nothing more elaborate is needed for the journey.
~ Xavier de Maistre
En verdad es posible ser tan desdichado, estar tan aislado como para no tener un refugio para apartarse y esconderse de la gente
~ Xavier de Maistre
safety net against the temptations of the world.
~ David Weaver
Be taught now, among the trees and rocks, how the discarded is woven into shelter, learn the way things hidden and unspoken slowly proclaim their voice in the world. Find that far inward symmetry to all outward appearances, apprentice yourself to yourself, begin to welcome back all you sent away, be a new annunciation, make yourself a door through which to be hospitable, even to the stranger in you.
~ David Whyte
A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.
~ Jean Rhys
The brothers are a deeply calming presence. They are warm bread. They are shelter.
~ Jeanine Cummins
The ghetto was not guarded. One could enter and leave as one pleased. Maria, our former maid, came to see us. Sobbing, she begged us to come with her to her village where she had prepared a safe shelter. My father wouldn't hear of it. He told me and my big sisters,"If you wish, go there. I shall stay here with your mother and the little one …" Naturally, we refused to be separated.
~ Elie Wiesel
The garden is the place I go to for refuge and shelter," Elizabeth wrote in the German Garden, "not the house. In the house are duties and annoyances, servants to exhort and admonish, furniture, and meals; but out there blessings crowd round me at every step.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
They crawled inside and found that the cave was about 12 feet deep, with ample room to shelter them.
~ Alfred Lansing
You'll always be safe with me.
~ Alyson Noel
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
~ Bear Grylls