Quotessence
Home / Topics / Shelter Quotes

Shelter Quotes

Browse 690 quotes about Shelter.

Related topics

PeopleIfsNeedsWorldClothingsHomeMenAnimalThinkingHomelessChildrenGivingHumansShouldDogMayFirstsHelpingStormHeartStillsKnowsTreeHouseCareWantWaterEarthKindHas BeensLooksRainSoulAnimal ShelterLittlesPersonsWayYearsBodyMindProblemRunningStatesCatClothesComfortEnoughHardMadeMillionsNextNightPovertySleepTryingWellsCountryDoeFoundImportantJobsLightPoorReasonSelfSufferingTwoAmericaBehindsBookGrowsMaterialsMeanPetResourcesSaidShelter From The StormSimpleAirArchitectureBombsDreamFeelingsHungryKidsLawLongMightMotherParentPoliticalPurposeSchoolSkySpiritualStreetsSupportViolenceAbleBuildingmore

Shelter Quotes

“God's visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but a feed trough. ... For just an instant the sky grew luminous with angels, yet who saw the spectacle? Illiterate hirelings who watched the flocks of others, "nobodies" who failed to leave their names.”

EarthNamesAnimalSawsSkyGrewKingsAngelLaysChristmasInstantShelterFlocksLuminousIlliterateNewbornTroughAnimal Shelter
Book:The Jesus I Never Knew
Create image

“In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you to visit the lonely, or comfort the infirmed. No where in the Constitution does it say you have to provide clothing to the poor. In fact, one of the nicest things about living here in America, is that you really don't have to do anything for anybody. But when you do, you give meaning and provide soul to the concept of community...and develop a sense of purpose to something greater than one's self.”

GivingDoeSoulSelfFactsAmericaPurposeCommunityPoorGreaterComfortOffersConceptsLonelyConstitutionHungryClothingsShelterHomelessOrdinances
Author:Pope Paul VI
Create image

“Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will-are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.”

WantPersonsLife IsNamesComfortBlessingNakedEnjoymentFedsShelterPeasantsPossessingTolerableFreemanLordship
Author:Fanny Kemble
Create image

“The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting the expressive activity of topless dancers, which of late has found some shelter under the First Amendment. Rather, the Framers cherished unabridged freedom of political communication.”

FirstsGovernmentPoliticalFoundSpeakCommunicationActivitySpeechLateConcernedDancerAmendmentsShelterFreedom Of SpeechCropsFirst AmendmentPreventingExpressiveFramers
Book:With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002
Create image

“People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment they attempt any depth or generality of thought, they go mad almost infallibly. The vast majority, of course, adopt the local religious madness, as naturally as they adopt the local dress. But the more powerful minds will, equally infallibly, fall into the worship of some intelligent and dangerous lunatic, such as Plato, or Augustine, or Comte, or Hegel, or Marx.”

PeopleMindEnoughMomentsFallCoursesReligiousPowerfulCommonDangerousWorshipMadnessIntelligentDressesMadMajorityDepthAffairLocalsSaneShelterPlatoLunaticGeneralitiesHegelAugustineCommon LifePowerful Mind
Author:David Stove
Create image

“I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the Royal Family, and has obtained an annual pension for life-the dreadful fear of poverty and want having left his house for ever; I felt the safety and shelter which the little chickens feel under the wings of the hen. This is what it is to abide under the shadow of the Almighty, and to hide under His wings until all dangers are past.”

MenWantFeelsLittlesFeelingsPastHouseLeftFeltPerfectPoorPovertyDangerShadowSafetyWingsProtectionChickensShelterAlmightyRoyalCalmnessPoor ManAnnualsPensionHensRoyal FamilyPerfect Peace
Author:Christmas Evans
Create image

“Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion.”

WorldWritingHeartSeemsFallWaitingMillionsTelevisionPoetTerribleWestStaringBombsTemporaryDeclineShelterExplosionsRockets
Author:Randall Jarrell
Create image

“If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.”

IfsBelieveFactsRunningLyingBlackBehindsDoubtRiskDoorsReadyProveShameBrandsScoreShelterDeceivingStubbornKnockingFallacyPretensionColossal
Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
Create image

“This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.”

MenDesireEffortOpinionBuildingTheoryConcernedPraiseInsightConceptionImaginaryShelterPreservationPersistentImperativesSpectacularBuilding Up
Author:Eric Hoffer
Create image

“When the blessed Spirit, that bloweth where it listeth, visits you and stirs the plumage of the soul, seek no cowardly shelter from it, but fling yourself upon it, and, though its sweep be awful, you shall be sustained. Only do this, do all, not in presumptuous daring, but in divine submission; in dependence, not on any strength that can be spent, but on the ever-living stay of all that trust in Him.”

SoulSpiritDivineBlessedAwfulDaringShelterDependenceSubmissionCowardlyFlingPresumptuousVisits You
Book:A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons
Create image

“The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.”

WorldShouldStatesRiskConditionsSecuritySafeThreatTransitionPassagesRegimesStableShelterNational SecurityCurvesSlidesModernityInstability
Author:Ian Bremmer
Create image

“In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.”

MindHumansWellsChildrenHuman BeingsDoubtMaterialsAdultsBuiltPhilosophicalConstantChaosMythTalesLandscapeFairyLegendsConstructionFairy TaleShelterComponentsSiege
Author:Yi-Fu Tuan
Create image

“Israel is doing what any other country would do, and certainly the U.S. would do. If 80 percent of your population were under fire and you had 60 seconds or 90 seconds to get into bomb shelters, if terror tunnels were dug underneath your border in order to come in and explode your kindergartens and massacre your people and kidnap American citizens.”

PeopleIfsCountryOrderFireCitizensPercentPopulationTerrorIsraelBordersBombsSecondsShelterOther CountriesTunnelsAmerican CitizensKindergartenMassacresBomb Shelters
Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
Create image

“What feeling in all the world is so nice as that of a child's hand in yours? It is soft. It is small and warm. It is as innocent and guileless as a rabbit or a puppy or a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.”

WorldChildrenFeelingsHandsNiceWarmInnocentShelterRabbitsPuppyKitten
Book:Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...
Create image

“some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.”

PeopleLooksSeemsReligionFoundBornQuietWanderBrokeSheepShelterBlandPasturesPlacidMaverick
Book:I'Ve Got to Talk to Somebody, God: A Woman's Conversations With God
Create image

“If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.”

PeopleIfsMenGivingChildrenSometimesHandsCareDiesChristPoorLonelyInstrumentsSeekingHungryBreadClothingsShelterDisguiseHomelessPoor PeopleStarvationHands Of GodDistressingHungry ManLonely Man
Author:Mother Teresa
Create image

“However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.”

PeopleThinkingWorldGivingLongStillsEnoughHelpingFeelingsPainSinGriefVirtueStageHorrorEmpathyDirectUltimateHealInjuryClothingsCowardiceShelterShrinksTributeVicarious
Book:A pocketful of pebbles
Create image

“where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when, out of negligence or contempt, it overlooks the need of children to be reared in a family ... or when, in the midst of plenty, some families cannot give their children adequate food and shelter, safe activity and rest, and an opportunity to grow into full adulthood as people who can care for and cherish other human beings like themselves.”

PeopleNeedsGivingHumansChildrenWholeCareSufferingOpportunityNationsGrowsHuman BeingsFamilySocietyActivitySafeDisasterPlentyMidstNeglectCherishContemptShelterAdulthoodAdequateNegligence
Author:Margaret Mead
Create image