“It would be amazing if people listened to it when they needed shelter; it would be lovely if they didn't spit on it.” PeopleIfsWould BeNeededLovelyShelterSpit Author:Lykke Li
“Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to it: we need to protect, to preserve, to shelter as much as we need to develop. But I think this always has to be juxtaposed against the optimism of old, which is now represented in part by immigrants. I would like to see America achieve a kind of balance between optimism and tragedy, between possibility and skepticism.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindAmericaAchieveExampleMovementPossibilityBalanceProtectOptimismTragedyEnvironmentalPreservesImmigrantsShelterSkepticismFiniteGreat Wisdom Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Each year, millions of animals are euthanized at local shelters because of overpopulation. Almost half of the animals brought into these shelters are euthanized because suitable homes can't be found for them. Animal rescue, a cause close to my heart, can lead to the safety of millions of these lost souls.” YearsHeartSoulHomeFoundLostCausesAnimalHalfMillionsMy HeartSafetyLocalsRescueShelterSuitableLost SoulsOverpopulationAnimal RescueClose To My Heart Author:Jud Tylor
“When Gimme Shelter was recorded, early '69 or something, it was a time of war and tension, so that's reflected in this tune. It's still wheeled out when big storms happen, as they did the other week. It's been used a lot to evoke natural disaster.” StillsWarBigsHappensUsedNaturalWeekStormDisasterTensionTunesShelterEvokeNatural Disaster Author:Mick Jagger
“After disasters, reproductive healthcare falls by the wayside. Yet babies continue to be born. When all infrastructure falls apart, when the hospitals and all their technological equipment are destroyed, midwives come in handy. They can help women give birth with or without electricity, running water, equipment - even shelter is optional. When babies are ready, they come.” GivingHelpingRunningFallWaterBornReadyBabyBirthDisasterDestroyedHospitalsHealthcareShelterTechnologicalElectricityEquipmentFalling ApartInfrastructureHandyOptionalMidwifeRunning Water Author:Robin Lim
“To be proactive is to educate yourself and get the word out via social media, or through one of the many animal-welfare organizations around the world, and by signing petitions, starting your own campaigns, rescuing and fostering animals, organizing cleanups, recycling, volunteering at your local animal shelter, going to eco-tourist destinations or photo safaris. This will help get the word out to the masses, and hopefully, this will bring more awareness and more compassion to animal welfare.” WorldHelpingSocialAnimalCompassionAwarenessMediaMassOrganizationStartingSocial MediaCampaignsLocalsAround The WorldHopefullyWelfareDestinationEducateShelterVolunteerTouristsSigningAnimal WelfareRecyclingProactivePetitionsEcoFosteringAnimal Shelter Author:Katie Cleary
“Your friends will need you, too, someday. Maybe not in the same way, maybe not in cash and shelter, but they'll need you - to listen without judging, to invite them over when they're lonely, to show up for their events, to register in whatever way matters to them that they matter to you. Be on the lookout for these opportunities to give back, and do whatever is in your power not to miss many of them.” WayNeedsGivingMatterShowsOpportunityMissingEventsJudgingLonelySomedayInvitesCashShelterGiving BackNeed YouRegister Author:Carolyn Hax
“Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders. Everything they do - from waging war to building societies - will need to be carried out within the new context of the need for a good job.” PeopleWorldWantNeedsYearsHumansChildrenWarJobsLastsUsedDesirePeaceLeaderChangedBuildingSafetyShelterGood JobWorld LeaderLove Of MoneyWaging WarDesire Love Author:Jim Clifton
“The union of hearts-the union of hands-And the flag of our Union forever. - George Pope Morris. Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world away! Rose-red and blood-red The stripes for ever gleam; Snow-white and souldwhite- The good forefathers' dream; Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright- The gloried guidon of the day; a shelter through the night.” WorldHeartDreamHandsTodayNightStarsWhiteHalfForeverBloodSkyLandRedBlueUnionsRoseSnowFlagsShelterPopeGleamForefathersStripesSnow WhiteMorrisFlag Day Author:Wilbur D. Nesbit
“The most important thing in a shelter is that volunteers, especially with dogs, come in everyday, take that pet out for an hour of quality time.” ImportantHoursQualityDogImportant ThingsEverydayPetShelterVolunteerQuality Time Author:Temple Grandin
“Now there are a few things with a shelter - like with noise control, don't face dog runs facing each other that tends to encourage barking. The problem you've got is that the kind of materials that absorb noise are difficult to clean. One of the biggest problems in the design of animal shelters is that animals are barking and it's like the sound of a jet plane taking off.” KindProblemRunningFacesDifficultSoundAnimalDogDesignMaterialsCleanNoisePlanesShelterJetJet PlanesAnimal Shelter Author:Temple Grandin
“Giving those animals [in shelter] quality time - now, I have been in some of the shelters where the cats have been in group housing. Well if you have a cat that never gets out of sternal recumbency, now what that means is that [inaudible] - that's a stressed cat. If they lay on their side, then they are not stressed out.” IfsGivingWellsMeanHas BeensSidesAnimalQualityGroupsCatLaysShelterHousingStressedStressed OutQuality Time Author:Temple Grandin
“At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.” ProblemEffortBuildingHugeAfghanistanShelterRefugeeHomelessness Author:Khaled Hosseini
“There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to building shelters for refugees in northern Afghanistan and we have already begun doing so.” NeedsEffortBuildingFoundationAfghanistanShelterRefugee Author:Khaled Hosseini
“The bulk of our efforts [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] has focused on helping build permanent shelters for returning refugees who are homeless, living out in the open or in makeshift homes. This is an area of urgent need as Afghanistan's natural elements are quite harsh, with very hot summers, and freezing winters.” NeedsHelpingHomeNaturalEffortElementsSummerAreasHotFoundationWinterFocusedPermanentAfghanistanShelterHarshHomelessRefugeeUrgentFreezingHot SummerNatural Elements Author:Khaled Hosseini
“If we offer something to Bangladesh, it's obvious that Bangladesh is offering something to us. And why shouldn't Bangladesh be able to keep its promises? Economically it's full of resources and can stand on its feet. Politically it seems to me led by trained people. The refugees who took shelter here are going home.” PeopleIfsHomeSeemsAbleFeetPromiseOffersResourcesObviousOfferingShelterRefugeeGoing HomeBangladesh Author:Indira Gandhi
“They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.” PeopleHumansWholeNaturalRacePovertyMillionsLandResourcesCrisisGreedHuman RaceFortyShelterDistressStolenNatural ResourcesPublic Lands Author:Denis Kearney
“If Trump and his team are able to lower the corporate tax rate to 15%, you look out. The left have told people that corporations are gonna hide the money or shelter the money or keep it for the CEO. They're not gonna give it away, they're not gonna sharing it, it isn't gonna trickle down. You watch.” PeopleIfsGivingLooksAbleLeftWatchesTeamTrumpTaxesRateCorporateCorporationsShelterCeoOld PeopleTrickle Down Author:Rush Limbaugh
“A corporation exists to provide jobs for the community. A corporation exists to make charitable donations to the symphony or the homeless shelter or whatever it is. That's not why businesses exist.” JobsCommunityCorporationsShelterHomelessSymphonyCharitableDonation Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the black man in America, for the past 400 years, has been like a boy in the white man's house, begging the white man for a job, for food, clothing and shelter. And then after the white man provides him with all of these things, he turns around and get - has the nerve to get angry at the white man when the white man tries to control his life.” MenTryingYearsHas BeensJobsAmericaPastTurnsHouseBlackWhiteBoysAngryNervesClothingsShelterHonorableWhite ManMuhammadBeggingElijahLike A BoyElijah MuhammadHonorable Elijah Muhammad Author:Malcolm X
“My belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ and the testimony I have of the Savior and His atonement [is my personal shelter].” JesusBeliefChristJesus ChristSaviorShelterTestimonyAtonement Author:LaVell Edwards
“I would like to see a law legalising women's shelters in Iraq. I would like to see our radio being opened again as a result of the pressure that we're putting on the governmental body that could allow this.” BodyLawResultsPressureIraqRadioShelter Author:Yanar Mohammed
“I believe in the 12 Jewels and try to provide my childrem with them. That is Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Love, Peace and Happiness.” TryingBelieveI BelieveUnderstandingJusticeI Believe InClothingsShelterJewelsPeace And HappinessKnowledge WisdomJustice Equality Author:RZA
“There are, by the most conservative counting, two grave and deeply regrettable collateral victims of the peer-review gruesome stratagem: one is the daring of thought (wished-washed to the lowest common denominator), and the other is the individuality, as well as the responsibility, of editors (those seeking shelter behind the anonymity of "peers", but in fact dissolved in it, in many cases without a trace).” WellsTwoFactsCommonBehindsResponsibilityCasesVictimIndividualityConservativeSeekingGravesEditorsReviewsDaringShelterPeersLowestCountingAnonymityCommon DenominatorStratagemCollateralLowest Common DenominatorWithout A TracePeer Review Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.” PeopleWorldDoeRunningSchoolSocialChurchCrisisAround The WorldWelfarePriestsShelterHomelessNunSocial Welfare Author:Anna Quindlen
“There's a ripple effect in being underpaid for women. Ten thousand women are turned down every day for domestic abuse shelters. Part of domestic abuse is often economic suppression; the male might take your paycheck every week and never give you money or allow you to work because he's too jealous.” GivingMightWeekEconomicEffectsThousandTenAbuseMalesJealousShelterRippleSuppressionPaychecksDomestic AbuseTurned DownRipple EffectUnderpaid Author:Patricia Arquette
“Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.” NeedsProblemGovernmentCommunityDealsCrisisSolvePartnersCompromiseTreatmentShelterHomelessFacilityFaith Based Author:Dirk Kempthorne
“We must build a movement for education, not incarceration. A movement for jobs, not jails. A movement that will end all forms of discrimination against people released from prison - discrimination that denies them basic human rights to work, shelter and food.” PeopleHumansEndsJobsFormRightsMovementPrisonHuman RightsDenyDiscriminationJailShelterIncarcerationBasic Human Rights Author:Michelle Alexander
“Much of life for many people, even in the heart of the First World, still consists of waiting in a bus shelter with your shopping for a bus that never comes.” PeopleWorldFirstsHeartStillsWaitingBusShoppingShelter Author:Doreen Massey
“How do you have a think in pictures? Well, you have to sort the pictures into categories. You know, for example, a dog knows that, you know, there's good people and there's bad people. And I talked to a lady the other day where her dog was afraid of people with white beards because she had adopted him from an animal shelter and somebody with a white beard had abused him. And this dog was now afraid of everybody that had a white beard. That was the bad category.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWellsWhiteAnimalDogExampleCategoriesGood PeopleShelterAdoptedBeardBad PeopleAnimal Shelter Author:Temple Grandin
“In women's shelters the kind of clothes that women are given to go to job interviews are all girl clothes: little heels, little skirt. If you're gender nonconforming, you're a lesbian, you're not going to put those clothes on to go to a job interview.” IfsKindLittlesJobsGirlGivenClothesGenderInterviewsHeelsShelterSkirtsJob Interview Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I thought of New York as a free city, like one of those prewar nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and lamsters and refugees found shelter in a tangle of improbable juxtapositions. I had never gotten around to changing my nationality from the one assigned me at birth, but I would have declared myself a citizen of New York City had such a stateless state existed, its flag a solid black.” StatesFoundBlackCitiesNew YorkBirthCitizensNew York CityFlagsShelterRefugeeIntrigueExileNationalityNestsImprobableJuxtaposition Author:Luc Sante
“Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.” PersonsStillsSituationComfortUnhappyTragicCompanionShelterGood Food Author:Dalai Lama
“I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.” Shelter Author:Jared Leto
“'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.” IfsChildrenHappensFilmParentBoysResourcesConcernExtremesYour ChildrenShelter Author:Viggo Mortensen
“Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?” KindHomeDyingMassShelterOne Of A Kind Author:Ingrid Newkirk
“Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.” PeopleHumansFactsAnimalDiedBusShelterEmergenciesHurricanesKatrinaHurricane Katrina Author:Ingrid Newkirk
“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.” CarePoliticalRightsPositiveHealthHealth CareZeroShelterTrickyLiving WagePolitical Rights Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.” EndsBigsCultureStuffPoorBreakRepublicanTaxesFolksOilDefinedPresidentialWelfareExecutivesShelterStampsRomneyDependencyNominationsTax BreaksFood StampsBig OilFree Stuff Author:Christine Pelosi
“I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways.” PeopleAnimalInvolvedTreatmentEthicalClothingsShelterPetaGreenpeaceTreatment Of Animals Author:Pink
“We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.” HumansMadeCountryHelpingHomeChallengesLinesAnimalStandardsPercentPetRescueShelterDonorsAnimal RescueAnimal ShelterPet FoodAspca Author:Rachael Ray
“Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.” LongArtistTermKnowingCreatingConnectionsStormDialogueArtisticLong TermTemporaryShelterShelter From The Storm Author:Jerry Saltz
“We had 90 percent rates, but nobody paid them. And so you had all these exemptions, exclusions, shelters, all this kind of stuff. And that's why most Americans are saying, 'Look, let's just be honest. Let's have lower rates, but everybody pays them.'” LooksKindStuffPayHonestPercentPaidRateBeing HonestShelterExclusionExemption Author:Rick Santorum
“Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us. So to have enough calories to keep our bodies going. Have shelter from extreme elements. To have water that is safe to drink, So I think that's the core of it.” IfsThinkingNeedsWellsRealEnoughBodyWaterCuttingDrinkSafeElementsConceptsExtremesCoreShelterCaloriesBasic Needs Author:Peter Singer
“There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?” IfsMenWorldGivingSoulHomeSpiritCoursesRaceRiversVoidShelterShellsBouldersTortoises Author:Wole Soyinka
“If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.” IfsWantNeedsHumansRightsHuman RightsShelterBasic Human Rights Author:Emma Thompson
“To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.” LibraryHistorianShelterMuse Author:Barbara Tuchman
“It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.” YearsLittlesFactsThreeLostKnownMillionsWonderfulInformationLifetimeTrackContactPetOwnersShelterWonderful ThingsFamily Pets Author:Betty White
“Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.” GivingArtBookHelpingFriendshipFinePrayingDrinkBlessingHelping OthersBeing TrueThanksGuidanceEach DayShelterMasterpieceGood BookBe True To YourselfTrue To YourselfFine ArtsRainyRainy Day Author:John Wooden
“We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.” PeopleTryingHumansNationsRightsBillsHuman RightsListsAcceptedShelterItemsBill Of Rights Author:Muhammad Yunus