Shelter Quotes - Page 17

• To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves.

  J. D. McClatchy

  Forests, Resigned

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• The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Destiny, Storm, Graves

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• Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

  Horace Greeley

  Mean, Cutting, Winter

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• 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.

  Philip Yancey

  Christmas, Kings, Angel

  Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical illness, including HIV/AIDS

  Jewel

  Kids, Risk, Abuse

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• Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.

  Jewel

  Girl, Boys, America

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• 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.

  Pope Paul VI

  Lonely, America, Self

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• Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for instance. However, this function went wrong when the principle source of insecurity came to be the operation of thought itself.

  David

  Insecurity, Principles, Helping

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• 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.

  Temple Grandin

  Running, Dog, Animal

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin". Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• 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.

  Temple Grandin

  Mean, Cat, Animal

  Source: www.floppycats.com

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• 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.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Effort, Foundation, Needs

  Source: www.diablomag.com

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• At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Effort, Problem, Building

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 25, 2009.

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• 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.

  Luc Sante

  New York, Cities, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lamps, Refuge

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• May I become at all times, both now and forever: a protector for those without protection; a guide for those who have lost their way; a ship for those with oceans to cross; a bridge for those with rivers to cross; a sanctuary for those in danger; a lamp for those without light; a place of refuge for those who lack shelter; and a servant to all in need.

  Shantideva

  Ocean, Light, Bridges

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• When I see Liz Taylor with those Harry Winston boulders hanging from her neck I get nauseated. Not figuratively, but nauseated! All I can think of are how many dog shelters those diamonds could buy.

  Doris Day

  Dog, Thinking, Boulders

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important.

  Bear Grylls

  Fire, Water, Important

  "Grilling Bear Grylls About 'Get Out Alive'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. August 5, 2013.

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• I have always admired organizations that help children grow and learn, and organizations that protect and shelter children when no one else does. And I wanted to draw attention to these organizations and recognize the contributions they were making to the country and to our children in particular.

  Laura Bush

  Country, Children, Organization

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Home, Support, Needs

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• But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect's ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? So removed from daily life was the whole experience that when all was rotten to the core, a fine dinner could revive the spirits. If and when I had twenty dollars left to my name, I was going to invest it right here in an elegant hour that couldn't be hocked.

  Amor Towles

  Civilization, Names, Ifs And

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• Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Giving, Tree

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• Government welfare programs contribute to the disintegration of poor families. They make women and children dependent on government; dependent for food, for clothing, for shelter; and reward fatherless families with extra benefits and welfare perks.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Children, Government, Welfare Programs

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• I got a pit bull from a shelter, so my whole life is centered on this dog, and I've been writing a lot of dog jokes. I should probably give up now, because I'm writing jokes about my dog.

  Joe Mande

  Dog, Giving Up, Writing

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• I'm so grateful that I'm able to do something about this passion that I have for shelter animals. In a strange way, it completes me. It means so much to me and makes me feel like I'm truly making a difference.

  Emmylou Harris

  Grateful, Passion, Mean

  Interview with Stacey D'Erasmo, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2014.

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• The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.

  H. G. Wells

  Dream, Opportunity, Men

  H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.229, Xist Publishing

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